Dmitry Sitkovetsky

Sitkovetsky was born in Azerbaijan, grew up in Moscow where he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire and then emigrated to the US where he studied at the Julliard School. He has performed throughout the world as a soloist and also conducts. He is increasingly involved with contemporary composers and has premiered concerti written for him by Caskin and Meyer.

Dmitry Sitkovetsky is an artist whose creativity defies categorising. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician & festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier, Istanbul, Newport, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley) and the IMG Tuscan Sun Festival.

In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a position he currently holds with great success.

Mozart had been an outstanding exponent of both the violin and the keyboard ever since childhood, and he extended the limits of the collaboration between the two instruments by freeing the violin from its dependence on the keyboard, thereby revealing both sides of himself at the same time. In this first volume of the Mozart Sonatas for Violin and Piano, the multi-talented and multi-faceted Dmitry Sitkovetsky has selected a program of Mozart’s youthful masterworks. Joined by pianist Antonio Pappano, Sitkovetsky gives full expression to Mozart’s genius – coming across as comical, as in the delightful variations in the A Major sonata K.305, composed in all probability in the early summer of 1778 in Paris; but also able to give expression to the tragic situations that can arise in a young life, as in the E Minor sonata K.304, whose deathly chill came as a direct reaction to the death of his mother.