Kirill Petrenko

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Kirill Garrievich Petrenko (Russian: Кирилл Гарриевич Петренко, Latin script: Kirill Garrievič Petrenko; born 11 February 1972) is a Russian-Austrian conductor. He is chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life: Petrenko was born in Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to a violinist father and musicologist mother. He is of Jewish descent. His father was born in Lviv (now in Ukraine). Petrenko studied piano as a youth, and made his public debut as a pianist at age 11. At age 18, he and his family emigrated to Austria, where his father played in the Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg. Petrenko studied music at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, graduating with honours in piano studies. He continued his musical studies in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where his teachers included Uroš Lajovic. His other conducting teachers and mentors have included Myung-Whun Chung, Edward Downes, Péter Eötvös, Ferdinand Leitner, Roberto Carnevale and Semyon Bychkov. Career: Petrenko made his conducting debut in opera in 1995 in Vorarlberg with a production of Britten's Let's Make an Opera. He was a Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) of the Südthüringisches Staatstheater, Das Meininger Theater (Meiningen, Germany), where his work included conducting the four stage works of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) in 2001 on four consecutive days, his

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"

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Beethoven : Symphony No. 7

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Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31

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Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor (Live)

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Suk, J.: Ripening / Tale of Winter's Evening

Pfitzner: Palestrina

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Shostakovich: Symphonies 8⁠–10

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Suk: Asrael, Op. 27

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Symphony No. 9

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Symphony No. 8

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Josef Suk: Tale of a Winter's Evening; The Ripening

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