Dmitry Evgenyevich Sinkovsky (russian: Дмитрий Евгеньевич Синьковский) (born 1980, Moscow) is a Russian virtuoso
violin
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ist, concertmaster,
countertenor
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and conductor. Sinkovsky started playing violin at age 5.
He has been a prizewinner in the
Bach Competition (2006),
Musica Antiqua Competition (2008), and
Romanus Weichlein (2009). He has performed in
Europe
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,
Russia
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,
Canada
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,
Australia
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and the
United States
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with such
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
s as the Canadian
Arion Baroque Orchestra
Arion Baroque Orchestra, founded in 1981, is a Canadian baroque orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, specializing in music of the 18th century performed on period instruments.
History
Arion Baroque Orchestra was founded in Montreal in 1981 ( ...
, Finnish
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra
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, German
Concerto Köln
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The group formed in 1985, one of many groups associated with the surging interest in period instruments in that decade. Its members consisted mainly o ...
, Italian
Il Giardino Armonico
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, Spanish
Sevillian Orquesta Barroca, Australian
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) is an Australian period instrument orchestra specialising in the performance of baroque and classical music.
Founders
The orchestra's founder and artistic director is Paul Dyer.
In 2013 Dyer was a ...
, both
Pratum Integrum
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and
Musica Petropolitana of Russia and in the United States with the
Seattle Symphony
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History
Beginnings
The orchestra ...
.
In 2011, he founded the
La Voce Strumentale ensemble in
Moscow
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and from 2012 to 2014 was a conductor of
Il Complesso Barocco. There he worked with the
mezzo-soprano
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Joyce DiDonato
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...
, with whom he traveled to Europe and the United States. He has recorded numerous works with such German orchestras as
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
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and
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
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, on the
Caro Mitis
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label. Since 2005 he has worked as a teacher at the
Moscow Conservatory
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where he teaches both
viola
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and violin, and in September 2009 he received
Francesco Ruggeri
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's violin at the
Jumpstart Jr. Competition in the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw
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.
References
Living people
21st-century Russian conductors (music)
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Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century violinists
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