Born and educated in St Petersburg, Vasily Petrenko was Resident Conductor at the St Petersburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre (1994–97) and Chief Conductor of the State Academy Orchestra of St Petersburg (2004–07). He took up his position as Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2006, and was appointed Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain from 2008.
Engagements include the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia, European Union Youth Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, NHK Symphony and Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Dallas, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra Washington, with scheduled débuts at Glyndebourne and the Opéra de Paris.
Recordings with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra include a rare double bill of Fleishman’s Rothschild’s Violin and Shostakovich’s The Gamblers, a disc of suites from Tchaikovsky’s ballets, and Manfred Symphony (Naxos 8.570568) and Liszt’s Piano Concertos (Naxos 8.570517).
In October 2007 Vasily Petrenko was named Young Artist of the Year at the annual Gramophone Awards.
His recording with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and The Voyevoda (Naxos 8.570568) won the Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording 2009.
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra website
