Александър Ситковецки

Moscow-born and Menuhin-schooled, Alexander Sitkovetsky made his concerto debut at eight, the year an appearance in Montpellier led to a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School; he studied there with Natalya Boyarskaya and Hu Kun, later with Pavel Vernikov in Vienna, and Menuhin himself, an important influence, performed with him several times. Born in 1983, he plays a 1679 Stradivari, directs from the violin, and keeps chamber music at the centre of the work as a founding member of the Sitkovetsky Trio. From the 2023/24 season he has been artistic director of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra in Wrocław, and he is artist-in-residence in violin at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts. He also studied with Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg Academy, and plays in the Julia Fischer Quartet beside his own trio. The London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony are among the orchestras he has appeared with, and his recording of Panufnik's Violin Concerto with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin brought an ICMA Special Achievement Award.