Vassily Sinaisky

Vassily Sinaisky’s international career was launched in 1973 when he won the Gold Medal at the prestigious Karajan Competition in Berlin. His early work with Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic and with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatoire provided him with an incomparable grounding. Soon after his success at the Karajan Competition, Sinaisky became Chief Conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 1976 to 1987 and has recently been appointed as Conductor Emeritus. He then became Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, leading numerous high-profile projects with the Orchestra both in Russia and on tour.

In the 2017/18 season Sinaisky will conduct the Seoul Philharmonic, Houston Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, Madrid Philharmonic and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

Sinaisky holds the positions of Conductor Emeritus of the BBC Philharmonic. Memorable projects with the BBC Philharmonic have included the ‘Shostakovich and his Heroes’ festival, tours to Europe and China, as well as many appearances at the BBC Proms. Sinaisky is Honorary Conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and has also held the positions of Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Music Director of the Russian State Orchestra. Whilst Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Sinaisky conducted many acclaimed productions including Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel directed by Kirill Serebrennikov and Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier directed by Stephen Lawless (the first ever staging of this work in Moscow).

Sinaisky has conducted Iolanta and Francesca da Rimini in new productions by Stephen Lawless at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. He also conducted Boris Godunov at San Francisco Opera. Other projects have included productions of The Fiery Angel at Komische Opera Berlin, and The Queen of Spades at Hungarian State Opera, Carmen and Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera and an acclaimed Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Hans Neuenfels at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Vassily Sinaisky’s recordings include a set of the symphonies of Franz Schmidt for Naxos with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. His other recordings include many with the BBC Philharmonic including works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, RimskyKorsakov, Shchedrin, Glinka, Liadov, Schreker and Szymanowski. His most recent recording is of the Tcahikovsky and Grieg Concerti with Denis Kozhukhin and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for Pentatone. Vassily Sinaisky is a noted and influential teacher, and holds the position of Professor of Conducting at the St Petersburg Conservatoire.

2017-2018 season / 455 words. Not to be altered without permission.