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Kirill Karabits

Kirill Karabits OBE (Ukrainian: Кири́ло Іва́нович Кара́биць, romanized: Kyrylo Ivanovych Karabyts; born 26 December 1976) is a Ukrainian conductor.

Kyrylo Karabyts
Кирило Карабиць
Karabyts conducting an opera in Lviv, 2015
Born(1976-12-26)26 December 1976
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationConductor
Years active1995–present
RelativesIvan Karabyts (father)

Biography

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Early life

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The son of the conductor and composer Ivan Karabyts, Karabits was born in Kyiv (then in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union). In his youth, Karabits studied piano, musicology and composition developing an interest in conducting at age 13.[1] His early teachers included Tatiana Kozlova. In Kyiv, he studied at the Lysenko Music School, and later at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy. In 1995, he began studies at the Vienna Musikhochschule and earned a diploma in orchestral conducting after five years of study. He also attended the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, where he was a pupil of Helmuth Rilling and Peter Gülke. He has done scholarly work on the musical archive of the Berliner Singakademie, such as transcribing the 1784 Johannes Passion of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which was thought to be lost.

Career

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Karabits made his first public conducting appearance aged 19.[1] He was assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra from 1998 to 2000. He also served as associate conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007, Karabits was principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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In October 2006, Karabits made his first conducting appearance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and returned in October 2007,[2] where both concerts received acclaim.[3] In November 2007, the BSO announced the appointment of Karabits as their 13th Principal Conductor, after a unanimous vote from the orchestra musicians, effective with the 2009–2010 season.[4][5] The BSO appointment marked Karabits' first chief conductorship. Karabits held the title of Principal Conductor-Designate for the 2008–2009 season, with three concerts.[6] made his first conducting appearance at The Proms with the BSO in August 2009,[7] and formally took up the principal conductor post in October 2009.[8] He was the first Ukrainian conductor to be named principal conductor of a UK orchestra.[9] In August 2011, Karabits and the BSO agreed on a three-year extension of his contract through the 2015–2016 season.[10][11] In 2015, Karabits signed a rolling contract as principal conductor.[12][13]

Karabits conducted several premieres with the Bournemouth orchestra, including the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg's Absence,[14] 'Unforged' by Carmen Ho (November 2021),[15] Nurymov Symphony No. 2 (19 January 2022),[16] Ali-Zadeh Nizami Cosmology (April 2022),[16] Akimenko's Cello Concerto (October 2022)[17] and Anna Korsun's Terricone (January 2023).[18] Karabits concluded his tenure as the orchestra's chief conductor at the close of the 2023-2024 season, and now has the title of conductor laureate with the , and serve as artistic director of the orchestra's Voices from the East project.[19]

Other conducting work

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Karabits made his North American conducting debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in March 2009.[20] Karabits first conducted the 'I, CULTURE Orchestra' of Poland in 2013 and became its artistic director in 2014.[21] In November 2014, he made his first guest-conducting appearances with the Staatskapelle Weimar. He first conducted a production at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar in March 2015. Based on these appearances, in July 2015, the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar named Karabits their next Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) and chief conductor, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.[22] In June 2018, the DNT and Staatskapelle Weimar announced the scheduled conclusion of Karabits' tenure as GMD of the company in the summer of 2019, following an inability to reach terms on extending his tenure.[23]

In the opera house, Karabits conducted the premiere in Paris of Les orages désirés by Gérard Condé in 2003.[24] He made his debut at English National Opera in 2010 in Don Giovanni.[25] His Deutsche Oper Berlin guest-conducting debut was with Boris Godunov in 2017.[26]

Recordings

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With the Staatskapelle Weimar he has recorded Strauss and Liszt. With the BSO, Karabits has recorded music of Rodion Shchedrin for the Naxos label, and music of Aram Khachaturian for the Onyx Classics label.[27][28] He recorded a complete cycle of the seven Prokofiev symphonies with the BSO on Onyx from 2013 to 2015, which included the symphonic fragment of 1902, the original version of the fourth, and the alternative ending for the seventh.[29] A series of CDs with music by composers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Ukraine, such as Kara Karayev, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Chary Nurymov and Avet Terterian has appeared on the Chandos label.[30] His performance of Sardanapalo by Liszt in Weimar was later issued on CD by Audite.[31]

References

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  1. ^ a b Suzy Klein (4 November 2010). "Kirill Karabits: pushing the limits". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  2. ^ Geoffrey Norris (19 October 2007). "Kirill Karabits: Triumphant blend of virile verve and fine focus". Telegraph. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
  3. ^ Geoffrey Norris (26 November 2007). "The young ones seize the baton". Telegraph. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
  4. ^ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, "Karabits appointed new Principal Conductor". 29 November 2007.
  5. ^ James Inverne, "Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra names new chief conductor". Gramophone, 23 November 2007.
  6. ^ Geoffrey Norris (28 November 2008). "Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits at the Lighthouse, Poole". Telegraph. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
  7. ^ Tim Ashley (12 August 2009). "Prom 34 – BSO/Karabits (Royal Albert Hall, London)". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  8. ^ Ben Hoyle (7 October 2009). "Orchestras pass the baton to new band of Eastern Europeans". The Times. Retrieved 9 October 2009.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ Kevin Shihoten (27 November 2007). "Karabits to Succeed Alsop as Bournemouth Symphony Principal Conductor". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
  10. ^ "Kirill Karabits signs three season contract extension as Principal Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra" (Press release). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. 9 August 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  11. ^ "Bournemouth Symphony extends principal conductor's contract". Gramophone. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  12. ^ "Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra extends partnership with Kirill Karabits" (Press release). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. 29 April 2015. Archived from the original on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  13. ^ Andy Martin (29 April 2015). ""I want to help take the BSO to the next level" – Conductor Karabits to extend stay to 2018 and beyond". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  14. ^ BSO, Karabits, The Lighthouse, Poole online review – stealing fire from the gods Peter Quantrill, the Arts Desk, Thursday, 12 November 2020. Accessed 2 April 2023.
  15. ^ BSO Concert Programme Autumn 2021
  16. ^ a b UK premiere - BSO Concert Programme Winter Spring 2022
  17. ^ BSO Concert programme Season 2022-23 (October)
  18. ^ BSO Concert programme Season 22-23 (January)
  19. ^ "Kirill Karabits and the BSO announce new chapter after 15 years" (Press release). Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  20. ^ Everett Evans (19 March 2009). "Ukrainian conductor to lead Houston Symphony". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  21. ^ "Kirill Karabits Appointed Artistic Director of I,CULTURE Orchestra" (Press release). HarrisonParrott. 5 September 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  22. ^ "Kirill Karabits neuer Generalmusikdirektor und Chefdirigent in Weimar". Thüringer Allegmeine. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  23. ^ Wolfgang Hirsch (18 June 2018). "Staatskapelle verliert GMD Karabits schon 2019". Thüringer Allegmeine. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  24. ^ Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine – CONDE Gérard (1947) Oeuvres page> accessed 24 November 2020.
  25. ^ Russ McDonald. Opera, January 2011 Vol.62 No.1 p95.
  26. ^ Carlos Maria Solare. Report from Berlin Opera, October 2017, Vol 68 No.10, p1304.
  27. ^ David Hurwitz (10 May 2010). "Shchedrin: Concertos 4 & 5". Classics Today. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  28. ^ Tim Ashley (11 November 2010). "Khachaturian: Spartacus; Gayaneh (excerpts) – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  29. ^ Booklet notes for Onyx 4137, 4139, 4147 and 4153 with interview of Karabits by Daniel Jaffé.
  30. ^ Fanny Charles. Karabits and the BSO – a new chapter. Blackmore Vale Magazine, 17 January 2023. accessed 4 April 2023.
  31. ^ Sardanapalo, Liszt review. Christopher Webber. Opera, May 2019 Vol 70, No.5, p629-30.
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Preceded by Principal Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
2009–2024 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Generalmusikdirektor, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar
2016–2019 		Succeeded by
Dominik Beykirch (chief conductor)
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