Alexander Sitkovetsky was recently announced as the Artistic Director of the renowned NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra Wroclaw, Poland, taking up his position from the 2023-24 season.
He was born in Moscow into a family with a well-established musical tradition. He made his concerto debut at the age of eight, and the same year moved to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School where he is now an Associate Artist. Lord Menuhin was his inspiration throughout his school years, and they performed together on several occasions.
Following a three-year residency at the Lincoln Center in New York through the prestigious Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), in 2016 Alexander received the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and now retains a position on the CMS artist roster, making several visits annually to perform at the Center. Also an alumnus of The Royal Academy of Music in London and the Kronberg Academy, Germany, his outstanding talents as soloist, orchestra director, and chamber musician have attracted accolades and won many awards, including 1st prize at the 2011 Trio di Trieste Duo Competition alongside pianist Wu Qian, and he is now increasingly in demand worldwide across multiple roles.
As a soloist he is regularly invited to guest with orchestras touring the UK, in recent years including the Brussels Philharmonic, Tonkünstler Orchester Vienna, Russian Philharmonic Novosibirsk, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.
Key concerto performances include appearances with theYomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin’s in the Fields, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bolivia, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra. He is much in demand as a director and was recently announced as the Artistic Director of the renowned NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra Wroclaw, Poland, taking up his position from the 2023-24 season. He has also worked with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Liszt Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, New York Chamber Players, Camerata Zurich, Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Romanian Sinfonietta.
The forthcoming season 2023-24 sees Alexander establish the first season of his artistic directorship in Wroclaw with 5 projects with the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Wroclaw as well as various tours. He will also return as soloist to Brno Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and English Symphony Orchestra, and will direct the Salzburg Camerata, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Novi Sad and the Romanian Sinfonietta.
He will appear internationally in chamber music performances with the Sitkovetsky Trio, Julia Fischer Quartet and as a duo with pianist Wu Qian.
Alexander plays on the 1679 “Parera” Antonio Stradivari violin, kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society by a generous sponsor.
Alexander is currently serving as Artist in Residence at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU University and is Professor of Violin at the Zurich Hochschule of the Arts in Switzerland.
Concerts
📅 Grosser Saal Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
1st January 2024 at 3.30pm
New Year’s Concert
Lead/Direct with the Camerata Salzburg
📅NFM Main Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
5th January 2024 at 7pm
New Year Gala Concert
Lead/Direct with the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra
📅 Janoska Ensemble
KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, Switzerland
7th January 2024 at 11am
New Year’s Concert
Lead/Direct with the Camerata Salzburg
📅 Weed, Ashland, Santa Monica, USA
11th – 14th January
USA Tour with the Sitkovetsky Trio
📅 Crossley Gallery, Halifax Philharmonic Club, Halifax, UK
2nd February 2024 at 7.30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Piano and Violin no 7 in C minor Opus 30 no 2
Maurice Ravel
Tzigane
Cesar Franck
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
With Jeremy Young – Piano
📅 Alice Tully Hall, New York, USA
10th February 2024 at 7.30pm
with the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio
Program with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Ravel
Piano Trio in A
📅 The Barns at Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia, USA
11th February 2024 at 3pm
Sam Perkin
“Freakshow” for Piano Trio
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A Minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in B flat Major, Opus 97 “The Archduke”
with the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio
📅 Isarphilharmonie, Munich, Germany
14th February 2024 at 7.30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Triple” Concerto in C Major, Opus 56
Joseph Bastian – Conductor
Münchner Symphonikern Orchestra
with the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio
📅 Evangelische Kirche Gschwend, Gschwend, Germany
17th February 2024 at 7pm
Claude Debussy
Piano Trio in G Major
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in B flat Major, Opus 97 “The Archduke”
with the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio
📅 Trinity Episcopal Church, Vero Beach, Florida, USA
29th of February 2024 at 7.30pm
Edward Grieg
Sonata for Violin and Piano no 3 in C minor Opus 45
Erno Dohnanyi
Piano Quintet in C minor Opus 1
with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Wu Qian – Piano, Julian Rhee – Violin, Matthew Lipman – Viola, Jonathan Swenson – Cello
📅 Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore
4th – 6th March 2024
Conservatoire Residency including teaching, adjudicating and performing
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore
5th March at 7.30pm
Sam Perkin
“Freakshow” for Piano Trio
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A Minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no 2 in C minor, Opus 66
📅 St Barnabas Presbyterian Church, Dallas, USA
16th March at 7.30pm
Sam Perkin
“Freakshow” for Piano Trio
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A Minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no 2 in C minor, Opus 66
📅 NFM Red Hall, Wroclaw, Poland
24th March 2024 at 6pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D Major K251
Alfred Schnittke
Moz-Art a la Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Symphony no 52 in C minor