Dmitri Kitayenko

Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko (born 18 August 1940) is a Russian conductor.

He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union and studied at the Glinka Conservatory and those of Leningrad and Moscow. He was a prizewinner in the first Herbert von Karajan competition in 1969.^[1]

Kitayenko was music director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years. He has also held principal conductorships with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–1998), the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (1990–1996), KBS Symphony Orchestra (1999–2004) and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1990–2004). He has also served as principal conductor of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (1970-1976).

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Cultural offices
Preceded by Kirill Kondrashin	Music Director, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra 1976–1990	Succeeded by Vassily Sinaisky
Preceded by Aldo Ceccato	Principal Conductor, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra 1990–1998	Succeeded by Simone Young
Preceded by Myung-whun Chung	Principal Conductor, KBS Symphony Orchestra 1999–2004	Succeeded by Shin-ik Hahm

hr-Sinfonieorchester Principal Conductors

Hans Rosbaud (1929) Otto Frickhoeffer (1937) Kurt Schröder (1946) Otto Matzerath (1955) Dean Dixon (1961) Eliahu Inbal (1974) Dmitri Kitayenko (1990) Hugh Wolff (1997) Paavo Järvi (2006) Andrés Orozco-Estrada (2014)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 51877746 LCCN: n85345712 ISNI: 0000 0001 1472 6046 GND: 134427416 SUDOC: 07897450X BNF: cb139270696 (data) MusicBrainz: 6d24079f-217b-4015-90e9-f57b7ba5dd13

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