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Dmitry Liss
Dmitry Liss is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with the Music Director of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Professor Dmitry Kitayenko. Dmitry Liss began working with this orchestra as a conductor’s assistant. Upon graduation from the conservatory in 1984 he became a conductor of the Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra. In 1991 he was appointed to the position of Chief Conductor of this orchestra and at this time became the youngest chief conductor in Russia. Since 1995, Dmitry Liss has served as Artistic Director/Chief Conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra. Most recently, Liss was appointed Associate Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (1999). In 1997-1999 he was Principal Russian Conductor of the American Russian Youth Orchestra.
Liss has toured the United States, Japan, England, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Switzerland, France, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Hungary, Philippines, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Malta.
He performed as a guest conductor with the Russian National Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, St.-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Big Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony (Korea), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Norway), Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra and Residentieorkest (the Netherlands), Pacific Symphony (the USA), Malmo Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (Croatia), Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (Hungary), Estonian National Orchestra, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Moscow, Novosibirsk, and many other cities of Russia.
Contemporary music takes an especial place in the Dmitry Liss’s repertoire. He realized premieres of works by Sergey Berinsky, Alexander Vustin, Alexander Rozenblat. Ural Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry Liss was the first in Russia to play symphonic music by Karol Szymanowski, Toru Takemitsu, Frederick Martin, Arvo Pyart.
Dmitry Liss is the winner of the 1st International Competition of Young Conductors «Lovro Matacic» (Zagreb, 1995). He is Laureate of the Premium of Sverdlovsk Region Governor (2002).
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