Kirill Petrenko
| Born | February 11, 1972 |
| Hometown | Omsk, Russia |
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Berlin conductor Petrenko worried `no one needs us anymore'
- Kirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus pandemic. Public performances were suspended on March 12, 2020. When concerts resumed with a chamber-sized orchestra in Berlin’s empty Philharmonie that May 1 with a digital feed, Petrenko likened it to when Glenn Gould abandoned playing piano live and retreated to the recording studio.
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Petrenko to succeed Rattle as head of Berlin Philharmonic
The Berlin Philharmonic has picked Kirill Petrenko, a 43-year-old Russian who is music director at the Bavarian State Opera, to become its chief conductor and artistic director when Simon Rattle leaves the storied post in 2018. Petrenko, who emigrated to Austria with his family when he was a teenager, joins an elite group of conductors who have led the Philharmonic, one of the world's most renowned orchestras. Speculation about who would succeed Rattle has been a hot topic in the world of clas
