Concert Programs

Conductor

Kirill Petrenko

1972

Kirill Petrenko has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berliner Philharmoniker since the 2019/20 season, having been elected by the orchestra’s members in June 2015. Born in Omsk, Siberia, in 1972 into a family of musicians, he emigrated with his parents to Vorarlberg in Austria at eighteen and completed his studies in Vienna. His career was built largely in the opera house: as music director in Meiningen, where he conducted a much-noticed Ring cycle, then as General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2002 to 2007, and from 2013 to 2020 as General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he also led the Ring at the Bayreuth Festival from 2013 to 2015. Famously reticent with the press and meticulous in rehearsal, he is known for performances of rare intensity and clarity, and for a repertoire that ranges from the Austro-German core to Russian music, Suk, Korngold and Scriabin.

With

Berliner Philharmoniker

Conducts

Upcoming

Past guides

Sources 15

  1. Kirill Petrenko conducts “Hänsel und Gretel”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko Conducts Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Accessed 8 October 2026.
  2. Symphonic Landscapes: Kirill Petrenko and Leif Ove Andsnes, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Symphonic Landscapes: Kirill Petrenko and Leif Ove Andsnes in Sibelius, Grieg and the Pastoral Symphony. Accessed 7 October 2026.
  3. Kirill Petrenko conducts Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Symphony of a Thousand: Mahler’s Eighth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  4. Concert on 28.01.2026 29.01.2026 30.01.2026 Berliner Philharmoniker, Petrenko, Jansen, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in From Earth to Heaven: Brahms and Scriabin. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  5. Kirill Petrenko and Janine Jansen with Brahms’s Violin Concerto, Digital Concert Hall Cited in From Earth to Heaven: Brahms and Scriabin. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  6. Kirill Petrenko conducts Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Das Rheingold: The Beginning of the End. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  7. Kirill Petrenko conducts Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, Digital Concert Hall Cited in Das Rheingold: The Beginning of the End. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  8. Kirill Petrenko conducts Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Looking Back to Move Forward: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  9. Kirill Petrenko, Wikipedia Cited in Looking Back to Move Forward: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  10. Kirill Petrenko, Salzburger Festspiele Cited in Looking Back to Move Forward: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  11. Daniil Trifonov Cancels Berlin Philharmonic Concerts Due to Injury, The Violin Channel Cited in Storm and Sunrise: Brahms’s First Concerto and Also sprach Zarathustra. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  12. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, 10 October 2026, Carnegie Hall Cited in Friends and Fate: Elgar’s Enigma and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  13. Berliner Philharmoniker, Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Kirill Petrenko conducts Respighi and Martucci. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  14. Kirill Petrenko conducts Respighi and Martucci, Digital Concert Hall Cited in Kirill Petrenko conducts Respighi and Martucci. Accessed 30 September 2026.
  15. Guest performance Frankfurt, Berliner Philharmoniker Cited in Respighi’s Roman Trilogy and Verismo Arias with Jonathan Tetelman. Accessed 30 September 2026.