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Volodymyr Sirenko

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Volodymyr Sirenko

    born in 1960

Conductor, Public Figure

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2017)

    Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2001)

    People's Artist of Ukraine (2008)

    Professor (2012)

Volodymyr Sirenko has made approximately three hundred recordings for the archives of Ukrainian Radio, including W. A. Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 38 and 41, J. Brahms' A German Requiem, S. Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, B. Lyatoshynsky’s Grazhyna and On the Banks of the Vistula, A. Dvořák’s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9, Y. Stankovych’s Ave Maria and Black Elegy, among others. He has recorded more than fifty CDs, including W. A. Mozart’s Requiem, L. van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, G. Verdi’s Requiem, B. Lyatoshynsky’s Symphonies Nos. 1–5, Y. Stankovych’s Passions for Taras and When the Fern Blooms, as well as music by Ukrainian and international composers for films (around 40). His recording of V. Silvestrov’s Requiem for Larysa was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Volodymyr Sirenko has toured extensively in numerous countries, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada, South Korea, Israel, the UAE, Poland, the Netherlands, and others. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated with more than fifty Ukrainian and international orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London), the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia (Poland), and the Brooklyn Philharmonic (New York). He has conducted in prestigious concert halls around the world, such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra-Comique (Paris), Barbican Centre and Cadogan Hall (London), Roy Thomson Hall (Toronto), Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and the National Philharmonic Hall (Warsaw).
He has led landmark programmes and projects, including the cycle Gustav Mahler. Symphonies, J. S. Bach – The Passions according to Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John, as well as Mass in B Minor, A. Honegger’s oratorio Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, The Symphonies of Borys Lyatoshynsky, and the international project Ukraine Remembers – The World Acknowledges (performances of Y. Stankovych’s Requiem for the Victims of Famine in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, London, Amsterdam, Prague, Bratislava, Gdańsk, and Strasbourg), among others. Volodymyr Sirenko has also participated in numerous international festivals, including Warsaw Autumn, Kyiv Music Fest, Contrasts (Lviv), Premieres of the Season (Kyiv), and international music festivals in Lisbon, Bratislava, Rome, Wrocław, Santander (Spain), Sisteron (France), and Ankara (Turkey).
The conductor has collaborated with outstanding soloists, including Yevheniya Miroshnychenko, Anatoliy Solovyanenko, Zurab Sotkilava, Anatoliy Kocherga, Paata Burchuladze, Grygory Tsypola, Maria Stefyuk, Oleh Krysa, Bohodar Kotorovych, Viktor Pikayzen, Liana Isakadze, Volodymyr Krainev, Michel Béroff, Nikolai Petrov, Yuriy Fodor, Sharon Studer, Pierre Amoyal, and many others. He has conducted numerous world premieres of works by Ukrainian composers, including Symphony No. 6 and the oratorio The Tale of Igor’s Campaign by Yevhen Stankovych; Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8, Meta-Waltz, and Requiem for Larysa by Valentyn Silvestrov; the symphonic ballet Green Holidays, choreographic scenes from Viy, and the symphony De Profundis by Vitaliy Hubarenko; the oratorio The Sorrowful Mother by Yuriy Laniuk; the symphonic frescoes My Ukraine by Lesia Dychko; Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7 by Hennadiy Lyashenko; Golden Stone We Shall Sow and Signs by Hanna Havrylets; Tutti and Panta Rei by Svyatoslav Lunyov; and Symphony No. 1, Credo, and Ode to Joy by Victoria Poleva, among others.
Volodymyr Sirenko has conducted composer tribute concerts dedicated to Borys Lyatoshynsky, Zanna Kolodub, Levko Kolodub, Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovych, Valentyn Silvestrov, Lesia Dychko, Hennadiy Lyashenko, Vitaliy Hubarenko, Victoria Poleva, Ihor Shcherbakov, Viktor Runchak, Yuriy Fiala, Alemdar Karamanov, Oleksandr Kostin, Yuriy Laniuk, and Bohdana Frolyak.
As a conductor and stage director, he has brought to life numerous opera productions and concert performances, including Karmella Tsepkolenko’s opera The Fate of Dorian; Vitaliy Hubarenko’s opera-oratorio Let Us Remember, My Brothers and the mono-opera Solitude; Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica; Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto; Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta; Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice; Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex; and Yevhen Stankovych’s folk opera When the Fern Blooms.
He devotes significant attention to the education of young musicians, working as a professor at the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
Awards: Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th Class (2018), Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2020).

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