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Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor

 

Dmitry Yablonsky was born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1962. His mother, Oxana Yablonskaya, is an internationally renowned pianist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and his father is a solo oboist in the Radio and Television Orchestra in Moscow.

At the age of 6, the young Dmitry accepted into the Moscow Central Music School for gifted children and, at the age of 9, he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn’s Concerto in C Major for violoncello. In 1977, Yablonsky immigrated to the United States, to continue his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute and further educational studies at Yale University.

As a soloist, he has performed all over the world in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Hall, La Scala, Halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg and many more. His chamber music partners include his mother Oxana Yablonskaya and musicians such as Yuri Bashmet, Vadim Repin, Jean Bernard Pommier and other notable musicians.

In 1990 he began pursuing a career as conductor. In Yale he has spent a lot of time with legendary conducting teacher Otto-Werner Muller and since 1992 has studied with Yuri Simonov, who has been chief conductor of Bolshoi Opera.

As a conductor, he has collaborated with such famous soloists such as Yuri Bashmet and Montserrat Caballé. Yablonsky has collaborated with many important orchestras such as London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he served as Principal Guest Conductor in 2000-2004, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and many other orchestras worldwide. In May 2014 he became the Music Director of Ukraine Chamber Orchestra – “Kiev Soloists”.

Yablonsky has released more than 80 albums, including world première of Nino Rota’s Cello Concerto, which he recorded for Chandos, and a notable Piano trio recording with Repin and Berezovsky which has won numerous awards.

Yablonsky organizes several festivals worldwide, including Gabala Festival in Azerbaijan and the Wandering Stars Festival. In 1998 Yablonsky has founded a summer Festival on the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees Mountains, which is called Puigcerdà Festival where many world class musicians come to perform and give Master classes. He subsequently purchased a house in the region where he resided. In recent years Yablonsky and his other have made Aliya and have settled in Israel. Currently, he teaches at the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University.

Yablonsky plays two cellos: a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri and a Matteo Gofriller.