Vasily petrenko conductor biography of mahatma

Vasily Petrenko was born in St Petersburg on 7 July and started his music education at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School - the oldest music school in Russia.

He then studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire and has also participated in masterclasses with Ilya Musin, Mariss Jansons, Yuri Temirkanov and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Between and , Petrenko was Resident Conductor at the St Petersburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre in the Mussorgsky Memorial Theatre.

Following considerable success in a number of international conducting competitions including the fourth Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St Petersburg (), First Prize in the Shostakovich Choral Conducting Competition in St Petersburg () and First Prize in the Sixth Cadaques International Conducting Competition in Spain, he was appointed Chief Conductor of the State Academy Orchestra of St Petersburg from to

During the early years of the 21st century, Petrenko conducted many key orchestras in Russia i