Vitali Alekseenok

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Vitali Alekseenok
Vileyka, Belarus
OccupationConductor
StyleClassical music
WebsiteOfficial website

Vitali Alekseenok (Belarusian: Віталь Алексяёнак; born 4 January 1991) is a Belarusian conductor and musician. Artistic director of the Kharkiv Music Fest[1] and since the 2022/23 season Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany.[2]

Biography

Alekseenok was born in

Vileyka, Minsk region, Belarus.[3]

In 2016 Alekseenok graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (Prof. Alexander Alexeev), then moved to Germany and completed his master's degree at the Weimar School of Music[4] (Prof. Nicolás Pasquet, Gunter Kahlert and Ekhart Wycik). During his studies he took part in various master classes, in particular by Bernard Haitink, Fabio Luisi among others.[5]

In 2021 he won the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma.

Verdi
opera.

In June 2021, Alekseenok became artistic director of the Ukrainian Kharkiv Music Festival,[9] which organizes concerts in bomb shelters, subways and hospitals in Kharkiv during the Russo-Ukrainian War.[10]

As an opera conductor he has collaborated with the

Severodonetsk in 2018 as part of the project "Music Overcomes Walls"[13][14][15]

Social engagement

In addition to Alekseenok's occupation as a conductor, he is also a writer. In 2021 his book Die weißen Tage von Minsk: Unser Traum von einem freien Belarus[16] was published by S. Fischer Verlag, as well as many articles and essays for Der Tagesspiegel,[17] Neue Rundschau,[18] Religion & Gesellschaft Zürich,[19] among others.

He has given lectures at

Humboldt University (Berlin).[21]
Alekseenok has also created numerous educational projects in Western and Eastern Europe and led youth orchestras in Germany, Italy, Poland and Ukraine.

References

  1. ^ "Kharkiv Music Fest". kharkivmusicfest.com. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Ensemble & Employees Deutsche Oper am Rhein". Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  3. ISBN 978-3-10397-098-2
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  4. ^ "Weimarer HfM-Studenten doppelt erfolgreich". Thüringer Allgemeine. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  5. ^ Alekseenok, Vitali. "Biography". Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Vitali Alekseenok Wins 11th International Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition". The Violin Channel. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Weimarer Dirigierstudent gewinnt Toscanini-Wettbewerb". Crescendo. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020+21". Arturo Toscanini International Conducting Competition. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Artistic director of Kharkiv Music fest". Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  10. ^ "War in Ukraine: Musicians perform emotional concert in Kharkiv metro station". BBC News. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  11. ^ "The Little Prince". Accademia Teatro alla Scala. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  12. ^ "Upcoming shows.Tristan und Isolde. Richard Wagner". National Opera of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  13. ^ Kazakova, Anna. "Biography". Reshape. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  14. ^ "'Don Giovanni' Premiers in Donbas". International Ukrainian TV channel FREEDOM. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  15. ^ Dornblüth, Gesine. "Kulturdialog in der Ostukraine. Don Giovanni in Sewerodonezk". Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  16. ISBN 978-3-10397-098-2
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  17. ^ Alekseenok, Vitali. "Demokratiebewegung in Belarus:Jetzt beginnt der Marathon". Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  18. ISBN 978-3-10-809163-7
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  19. ISBN 101-4-84-765-6
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  20. ^ "Die Künste unter Druck". Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  21. ^ "Lesung und Gepräch "Die weißen Tage von Minsk" mit Vitali Alekseenok". Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

External links

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