Vasily Petrenko’s announces his new Academy for Young Conductors. It will take place from 2 – 6 July 2024 in Yerevan, Armenia. The Academy is co-organized by the Primavera Foundation Armenia and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Artistic Director and...
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) today announces that Vasily Petrenko is extending his contract as Music Director through to 2030. Petrenko will lead the RPO into its next artistic chapter, further strengthening its position as one of the world’s great...
The 2023 BBC Proms, “the world’s greatest classical music festival”, return with 71 concerts throughout the UK from 14 July through The Last Night of the Proms celebration, featuring cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, on 9 September. Conductors Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir...
Conductor Vasily Petrenko‘s new album Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 ‘Emperor’ & 0 is available now on Naxos Records. This album follows a successful release of Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos in 2020, featuring Boris Glitburg and the Royal...
The tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is already one of the greatest moral failures and humanitarian disasters of our century. The historic and cultural ties between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, of which I am proud, can never be used to justify Russia’s invasion. In...
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra embark on a US tour in January 2022. Taking place during the orchestra’s 75th anniversary, the tour will also be the first of such a scale with Petrenko since he took up the role of our Music Director in August...
