Chief Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits has been recognized with an Honorary OBE by his Majesty The King for his services to music. Karabits who is set to bring his 15-year tenure with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to a close, has been a major champion of symphonic works from Ukraine and Eastern Europe since he took on the {…}
Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits has announced his final season with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The conductor will enter his 15th year at the helm and will open the season with a new discovery, a ballet suite by Ukraine-born composer Thomas de Hartmann. The season concludes in a three-week focus on music close to Karabits’ heart. In a statement, Karabits said: {…}
(Photo: ENO/Helen Murray) One wonders what Bruges ever did to Georges Rodenbach. His 1892 novella “Bruges-la-Morte” pumps the city full of a repressive religious and psychosexual fog. Its gloomy streets represent a labyrinth of grief, recrimination, and sexual guilt trodden by Paul, the protagonist of Erich Korngold’s 1920 opera “Die tote Stadt,” here billed and sung in English at the {…}
The English orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has announced that Kirill Karabits will step down as Chief Conductor. Karabits will leave his post during the summer of 2024 after completing 15 years with the orchestra. The conductor the BSO’s second longest-serving chief conductor after its founder Sir Dan Godfrey. He will become Bournemouth’s conductor laureate, artistic director, Voices from the East. {…}