{"id":1907,"date":"2021-08-13T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/?page_id=1907"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:34:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:34:41","slug":"alexander-sitkovetsky-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/alexander-sitkovetsky-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Sitkovetsky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexander Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow into a family with a well-established musical tradition.<\/p>

His concerto debut came at the age of eight, and in the same year he moved to the UK to study at the Menuhin School. Lord Menuhin was his inspiration throughout his school years and they performed together on several occasions.<\/p>

Highlights of his recent concerto performances include appearances with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta R\u012bga, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin\u2019s in the Fields, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarm\u00f3nica de Bolivia, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau.
He is also much in demand as a director and has directed and performed as a soloist regularly with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, London Mozart Players, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Players, Camerata Zurich and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>

He is also regularly invited as guest soloist with orchestras touring the UK and these have recently included the Russian Philharmonic Novosibirsk, Brussels Philharmonic, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Tonk\u00fcnstler Orchester.<\/p>

The forthcoming season will see his debuts with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra Tennessee and Romanian Sinfonietta, as well as return visits to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta R\u012bga, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Youth Orchestra, and Camerata Salzburg. Further highlights will be appearances at various chamber music festivals and venues, tours with the Julia Fischer Quartet and the Sitkovetsky Trio and extensive periods of chamber music in Australia and the USA.<\/p>

His critically acclaimed CPO recording of Andrzej Panufnik\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin commemorating the composer\u2019s 100th birthday won an ICMA Special Achievement Award. His most recent recording with the English Symphony Orchestra of the Philip Sawyers\u2019s Violin Concerto was released to great critical acclaim.<\/p>

Alexander was awarded 1st prize at the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition alongside pianist Wu Qian. He is an alumnus of the prestigious \u2018Chamber Music Society Two\u2019 programme at the Lincoln Center, and in 2016 received the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.<\/p>

Alexander is a founding member of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio, with whom he has won various prizes including the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Kammermusik Prize. The trio has performed all over the UK and Europe including Alte Oper Frankfurt, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall, and toured Asia recently.<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexander Sitkovetsky Alexander Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow into a family with a well-established musical tradition.His concerto debut came at the age of eight, and in the same year he moved to the UK to study at the Menuhin School. Lord Menuhin was his inspiration throughout his school years and they performed together on several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1907\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilafestival.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}