Vassily Sinaisky

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Vassily Sinaisky

Vassily Serafimovich Sinaisky (Russian: Васи́лий Серафи́мович Сина́йский, born: April 20, 1947) is a Russian conductor and pianist.

He studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory and began his career as Assistant to Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1973 he won the Gold Medal at the Karajan Competition in Berlin.

Sinaisky was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1991-1996. He has also held the posts of Chief Conductor of the Latvian Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also appointed Music Director of the Russian State Orchestra (formerly Evgeny Svetlanov’s USSR State Symphony Orchestra), a position he held until 2002. Sinaisky has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic since 1996, and is a regular and popular visitor to the Proms each summer.

In 2004/5, Sinaisky enjoyed great praise for his debut with the London Philharmonic, while his conducting of a new production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Komische Oper Berlin also received unanimous critical acclaim in the German press.

Upcoming highlights for Sinaisky include his debuts with NDR Hamburg and the Pittsburgh, Seattle, Indianapolis and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras. He returns to the London Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, RSB Berlin, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Sinaisky was Principal Guest conductor with the Bolshoi Theatre. He conducted performances of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Welsh National Opera, including one at the BBC Proms, as well as the aforementioned Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. In recent years, productions of Carmen and Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera were both highly praised.

Vassily Sinaisky has made several recordings with the BBC Philharmonic for Chandos, including works by Szymanowski, Rodion Shchedrin, Balakirev and Franz Schreker and a series of recordings of Shostakovich’s film music. Vassily Sinaisky is represented by Intermusica.