Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko (also spelled Dmitrij Kitajenko) (born 18 August 1940) is a Soviet and Russian conductor. He was bestowed the title
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
(1984).
He was born in
Leningrad,
Soviet Union and studied at the Glinka Conservatory and those of Leningrad and
Moscow. He was a prizewinner in the first
Herbert von Karajan competition in 1969.
Kitayenko was music director of the
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years. He has also held principal conductorships with the
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
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History
Established in 1765 under the name ''Det Musicalske Selskab'' (The Musical Society), it later changed its name t ...
(1990–1998), the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
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(1990–1996),
the
American Russian Young Artists Orchestra,
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/ref> KBS Symphony Orchestra
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History
The orchestra was founded in 1956 as the radio ...
(1999–2004), and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1990–2004). He has also served as principal conductor of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (1970–1976).
References
External links
Homepage of Dmitri Kitayenko
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Soviet conductors (music)
Musicians from Saint Petersburg
1940 births
Living people
Moscow Conservatory alumni
21st-century Russian conductors (music)
Russian male conductors (music)
21st-century Russian male musicians