VOLODYMYR SIRENKO
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Volodymyr Sirenko has established a reputation for himself, compared by the international press to brilliant conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Simon Rattle. He was born in Poltava region. In 1989 he graduated from Kyiv Conservatoire where he studied conducting under Prof. A. Vlasenko and a year later became finalist at the International Conducting Competition in Prague. Sirenko was invited to the position of the Chief Conductor of the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1991, which he held until 1999 when he became Art istic Director and Chief Conductor of the celebrated National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (former State Symphony Orchestra).
Volodymyr Sirenko is an Honoured Figure of Art s of Ukraine (1997) and of Russian Federation (2003). In 2001 he received Ukraine's most prestigious award – the National Shevchenko Prize.
Sirenko has frequently toured Russia, USA, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium, the UK amongst other countries. He has worked with many orchestras abroad including the Moscow Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Warsovia , Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Radio Symphony. He has appeared at numerous concert halls around the world including the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, Great Hall of St Petersburg Conservatoire, Théâtre des Champs-Elisés and Opéra Comique in Paris, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Centre Manuel de Falla, Filharmonia Narodowa (Warsaw). |
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