A renaissance man and a magnetic creative force, Dmitry Sitkovetsky is recognised throughout the world as having made a considerable impact on every aspect of musical life. A prolific recording artist, with a career spanning more than four decades, he is celebrated globally as a violinist, conductor, creator, transcriber, and facilitator – and holds an undisputed and venerable position in musical society as a giant personality and educator.
His celebrated career as a violinist is documented in an extensive discography of more than 40 recordings, reflecting the impressive breadth of his repertoire. His recording collaborators to date include such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, working with such legendary maestros as Colin Davis, Mariss Jansons, Neville Marriner, and Yehudi Menuhin. As soloist, he has performed with the world’s leading orchestras – including the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Leipzig, New York Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Dmitry Sitkovetsky also enjoys a flourishing career as a conductor, having worked with such orchestras as Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Dallas Symphony, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. In 1990, he founded the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES) – bringing together the most distinguished string players from the top European ensembles, from both Russian and Western musical backgrounds.
Since 2003, he has served as the music director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina. Previous positions of artistic leadership have included the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Leon (artist in residence, 2006-2009), Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov (principal guest conductor, 2002-2005), and the Ulster Orchestra (principal conductor and artistic advisor, 1996-2001).
Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s name has also become synonymous with the art of transcription. His iconic orchestral and string trio versions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations have taken on a life of their own. Following this unprecedented success, he has gone on to arrange over 50 works of major repertoire by such composers as Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Schnittke, and Shostakovich.
