{{Short description|Russian conductor (born 1940)}}{{Infobox person | name = Dmitri Kitayenko | image = Kitajenko Dmitry.jpg | caption = Kitayenko in 2018 | native_name = Дмитрий Китаенко | native_name_lang = ru | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|08|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Leningrad | education = Glinka Conservatory, Leningrad Conservatory, Moscow Conservatory, Music Academy of Vienna | occupation = Conductor }}
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'''Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko''' (also spelled Dmitrij Kitajenko; {{langx|ru|Дми́трий Гео́ргиевич Китае́нко}}; born 18 August 1940)<ref name=":0" /> is a Soviet and Russian conductor. He was bestowed the title People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union. He studied at Glinka Conservatory, at Leningrad Conservatory and then at Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg<ref name=":2" /> and at Music Academy of Vienna with Hans Swarowsky.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Caskel |first1=Julian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7w1BEAAAQBAJ&dq=Kitajenko,+Dmitrij&pg=PT388 |title=Handbuch Dirigenten: 250 Porträts |last2=Hein |first2=Hartmut |date=1 March 2016 |publisher=Bärenreiter-Verlag |isbn=978-3-7618-7027-3 |language=de}}</ref> He was a prizewinner in the first Herbert von Karajan competition in 1969.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=artist |id=q33519 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Biography: Dmitri Kitayenko |last=Cummings |first=Robert |publisher=AMG |access-date=8 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> [[File:Richard Strauss Don Juan excerpt.mp3|thumb|Richard Strauss: ''Don Juan'', excerpt from a 1992 recording with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony]] Kitayenko served as principal conductor of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (1970–1976).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Heute |first=Klassik |title=Dmitrij Kitajenko |url=http://www.klassik-heute.de/4daction/www_interpret?id=6475 |access-date=27 August 2024 |website=Klassik Heute |language=de}}</ref> Then he was music director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for 14 years.<ref name=":0" /> He has also held principal conductorships with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–1998),<ref name=":0" /> the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (1990–1996),<ref name=":2">{{cite web |date=2017 |title=Dmitrij Kitajenko |url=http://www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de/orchester/historie/ehemalige-chefdirigenten/chefdirigent-19901996-dmitrij-kitajenko,historie-dirigenten-dmitrij-kitajenko-100.html |work=hr-sinfonieorchester.de |location=Frankfurt |language=de |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra,<ref>[https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=53 "American Russian Young Artists Orchestra opens American Tour with special Concert at Bard College on Monday, June 14, at 7 P.M." Bard.Edu]</ref> the KBS Symphony Orchestra (1999–2004),<ref name=":1" /> and the Bern Symphony Orchestra (1990–2004).<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 December 2018 |title="Tiere lügen nie" |url=https://www.thunertagblatt.ch/tiere-luegen-nie-854851205020 |access-date=27 August 2024 |website=Thuner Tagblatt |language=de}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official|https://www.kitajenko.com/en/}} {{in lang|en|de}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090934/http://en.kitajenko.com/home/ Homepage of Dmitri Kitayenko Archiv] *[https://www.operabase.com/dmitrij-kitajenko-a4288/en Dmitri Kitayenko] at Operabase *{{Discogs artist|artist=840538}}
{{S-start}} {{s-culture}} {{Succession box | title=Music Director, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | before=Kirill Kondrashin | years=1976–1990 | after=Vassily Sinaisky }} {{Succession box | title=Principal Conductor, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | before=Aldo Ceccato | years=1990–1998 | after=Simone Young }} {{Succession box | title=Principal Conductor, KBS Symphony Orchestra | before=Myung-whun Chung | years=1999–2004 | after=Shin-ik Hahm }} {{S-end}} {{Hr-Sinfonieorchester conductors}} {{International Classical Music Awards Lifetime Achievement}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitayenko, Dmitri}} Category:Soviet conductors (music) Category:Musicians from Saint Petersburg Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Moscow Conservatory alumni Category:20th-century Russian conductors (music) Category:21st-century Russian conductors (music) Category:Russian male conductors (music) Category:20th-century Russian male musicians Category:21st-century Russian male musicians Category:Chief conductors of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Category:Principal conductors of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony