A Renaissance man and a creative force, Dmitry Sitkovetsky is recognized world-wide for his versatility, being a violinist, conductor, creator, recording artist, transcriber, facilitator, and educator. He has made a considerable impact on musical society, and his interests cover every aspect of musical life.  Over the four decades since the launch of his career in Vienna’s Musikverein in 1979, Dmitri Sitkovetsky has worked closely with many of the world’s great conductors and orchestras.

They include: Sir Neville Marriner, Mariss Jansons, Sir Colin Davis, Yuri Temirkanov; Berlin PO, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, Philharmonia, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bayerischer RF, Munich PO, and the NHK Symphony. His celebrated career as a violinist is documented in an extensive discography of more than forty recordings, reflecting the impressive breadth of his repertoire from J.S. Bach to Rodion Shchedrin.

What’s more, Sitkovetsky has also established a flourishing career as a conductor, and has worked with orchestras such as Academy of St-Martin-In-The-Fields, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestra della Toscana, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, and Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra. In 1990, he founded the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES), bringing together the most distinguished string players from the top European ensembles, from both Russian and Western musical backgrounds (reflecting Dmitri’s personal experience).

Since 2003, Sitkovetsky has served as the Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina, to whom he has brought such soloists as Emmanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, and Pinchas Zukerman. The brand new 3,000-seat Stephen Tanger Performing Arts has finally opened its doors to the long-awaited public of Greensboro to hear Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. This was the culmination of many years of fundraising by the GSO Board and Sitkovetsky’s leadership of the orchestra.

As violinist and guest conductor, Dmitri Sitkovetsky’s 2019/2020 season was busy and varied until all musical life was truncated by COVID-19. Sitkovetsky was performing extensively throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, with such orchestras as the Lucerne Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’, Sapporo Symphony, Japan Century Symphony, and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

As live performance came to an end in the spring of 2020, Dmitry Sitkovetsky turned his attention to creating an innovative online presence with the legendary New European Strings. Given his unmatched ability to turn any project into a highly anticipated artistic event, Sitkovetsky brought together (remotely) a distinguished ensemble of musicians, playing the transcriptions he calls his Opus Coronavirus. He took the piano cycle of Leonid Desyatnikov the Bukovina Preludes, transcribed them, and then recorded them distantly with his NES Virtual Ensemble. These, as well as the new transcriptions of Bach Dance Suites, have been enthusiastically received by a virtual audience of 250,000 on social media.

It was this same inventiveness and imaginative approach that led Sitkovetsky to be sought out and invited to create, develop and lead a number of festivals: the Korsholm Music Festival, Finland (1983-1993, and 2002), the Seattle International Music Festival (1992-1997), the Silk Route of Music, Azerbaijan (1999), and the Festival del Sole, Tuscany (2003-2006).  In 2018/2019, he was invited as Artist-in-Residence of Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Festival. He is a close partner and a regular guest at other distinguished festivals: the Verbier, Ljubljana, and the Enescu Music Festivals.

Since May 2021 Sitkovetsky has resumed his active traveling schedule, and has performed in Bucharest, Oviedo (Spain), Dresden, Ljubljana, Hong Kong, Prague, Tongyeong (Korea), Baku, Moscow, and in Greensboro, North Carolina.  2022 began with his performance of Tchaikovsky Concerto in London, Brahms Concerto in Japan, Stravinsky Divertimento in Israel, Beethoven Triple Concerto in Dublin; returning later to Korsholm, Ljubljana, Jerusalem, and Enescu festivals, as well as Baku and Moscow.