Kyiv Orchestra
Sunday,
March 10, 2024
| 3:00 PM
DMITRY YABLONSKY, Conductor and Cellist
Dmitry Yablonsky was born into a musical family. At a very early age, he showed musical talent, and at the age of 6, he was accepted into the Central Music School for gifted children, where cello became his instrument. His orchestra debut came at the age of 9, when he performed the Haydn C Major Cello Concerto with Gennady Provatorov conducting. During the last few years before his family's immigration, Dmitry has performed numerous recitals.
Upon arrival in New York City in June of 1977, Dmitry auditioned for the Julliard School of Music, and was accepted. During the school years, his cello teachers ewre Isaak Buravsky, Zara Nelsova, and David Soyer. Dmitry also participated in master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Andra Navarra, Maurice Gendron, and Janos Starker.
During his graduate program at the Yale University, Dmitry took conducting lessons with Otto Werner Muller, who is considered one of the most influential conducting teachers in the United States.
His first professional recognition as a cellist came in 1979 when he performed at the well-known Marlboro Music festival, where he was the youngest participant. Since then, Dmitry has performed in such recognized concert halls such as La Scala, Carnegie Hall. Taiwan National Hall, Codagan Hall, Cite de la Musique, Madrid Auditorium, just to name a few.
In his performing and recording career, Yablonsky has worked in long-standing partnerships with artists such as Vadim Repin, Monserrat Caballe, Olga Borodina, Edlar Abdrazakov, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Berezovsky, Roberto Alagna, and many more.
Dmitry's professional engagements as a conductor began in Camerino, Italy in 1989. Since then, his conducting career has taken off. He's been invited to collaborate with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Moscow Soloists, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, De Filarmonie, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Israeli Opera Orchestra Richon LeZion, Tenerife Orchestra, Lamoureux Orchestra, Orchestra National d'lle de France, Belgian National Orchestra, OFUNAM Orchestra in Mexico, and others. His recent ours to the United States and Japan with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra as a Conductor Laureate were performed to sell out concert halls throughout.
Dmitry Yablonsky was recently appointed to be Chief Conductor and Artisitc Director of the Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony orchestra. The Orchestra's future releases on the Naxos label will include Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies, Silvestrov Pleyel and Hofmann cello concertos, Italian Areas with Azer Rzazadeh, and Dvorak Cello Concertos.
Dmitry has recorded more than 80 CDs for Naxos, Chandos, and Warner/Erato labels. His recordings have enojyed world-wide acclaim, and some of them were nominated for the Grammys, as well as the Artistics Personality of Azerbaijan, and Professor at the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
When Dmitry Yablonsky plays cello, he performs on either Matteo Goffriller, or Joseph filius Andreas Guarneri.
