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Kirill Petrenko (Kirill Garrievich Petrenko) was born on 11 February, 1972 in Omsk, USSR, is a Russian-Austrian conductor. Discover Kirill Petrenko's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

Popular As Kirill Garrievich Petrenko
Occupation Conductor
Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 11 February 1972
Birthday 11 February
Birthplace Omsk, USSR
Nationality USSR

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1972

Kirill Garrievich Petrenko (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.

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, soon after the Soviet borders were opened, 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.

1995

Petrenko made his conducting debut in opera in 1995 in Vorarlberg with a production of Britten's Let's Make an Opera.

1997

He was a Kapellmeister at the Vienna Volksoper from 1997 to 1999.

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 first professional conducting engagement with the operas of Wagner.

2002

Petrenko was GMD of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2002 to 2007.

2003

During this period, he made his debut with the Bavarian State Opera in 2003, and he returned to the Munich company in 2009 for a production of Jenůfa.

2006

Petrenko first guest-conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in 2006, and returned for guest engagements in 2009 and 2012.

2010

In October 2010, the Bavarian State Opera announced the appointment of Petrenko as its next GMD, starting in 2013.

2013

He conducted Wagner's complete Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

2014

He had been scheduled for a December 2014 guest appearance with the orchestra, but withdrew at short notice because of injury.

During the 2014 Crimean crisis, Petrenko called for a solution that would respect Ukraine's sovereignty.

2015

In October 2015, his contract as GMD of the Bavarian State Opera, previously set through 2018, was extended through the 2020–2021 season, although for the final year of his contract, he is scheduled to appear as a guest conductor.

In June 2015, the Berlin Philharmonic announced the election of Petrenko as its next chief conductor.

This appointment is Petrenko's first appointment to a chief conductorship of a symphony orchestra which is not affiliated with an opera company.

In October 2015, the orchestra announced that Petrenko was formally to commence his contract as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in the 2019–2020 season, with scheduled guest appearances in the seasons prior to 2019–2020.

2018

The official start of his Berlin Philharmonic tenure was not indicated at the time of the election, except for a comment by then-Berlin Philharmonic intendant Martin Hoffmann that "We are assuming that it will happen soon after 2018".

2019

In October 2016, the Berlin Philharmonic formally announced that Petrenko was to officially to start his tenure as the orchestra's chief conductor on 19 August 2019.

2020

In March 2020, Monika Grütters, the current Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Germany, and Petrenko assumed patronage of the Musiker-Nothilfe, a patronage fund for freelance musicians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In February 2022, Petrenko condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a "knife in the back of the entire peaceful world".