Alexander Sitkovetsky

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky became Artistic Director of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra Wrocław, Poland, in the 2023-24 season. Born in Moscow into a family with a well-established musical tradition, he made his concerto debut at the age of eight, and the same year began studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he is now an associate artist. Following a three-year residency through the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he received a 2016 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and now retains a position on the CMS artist roster.

Also an alumnus of The Royal Academy of Music in London and the Kronberg Academy, Germany, his outstanding talents as soloist, orchestra director, and chamber musician have attracted accolades and won many awards, including First Prize at the 2011 Trio di Trieste Duo Competition alongside pianist Wu Qian, and he is increasingly in demand worldwide across multiple roles. As a soloist he is regularly invited to perform with orchestras touring the UK, including the Brussels Philharmonic, Tonkünstler Orchester Vienna, Russian Philharmonic Novosibirsk, and St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

Key concerto performances include appearances with the BBC Scottish, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Yomiuri Nippon, and National Polish Radio symphony orchestras; the London, Royal, Russian State, and Netherlands philharmonic orchestras; Munich and European Union Chamber Orchestras; Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin; Halle Orchestra; Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields; Orquesta Filarmónica de Bolivia, Residentie Orkest The Hague; Welsh National Opera Orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Philharmonia Orchestra.

He is much in demand as a director and has worked with the Australian, Norwegian, Liszt, Lithuanian, and Arctic Philharmonic chamber orchestras; London Mozart Players; New York Chamber Players; Camerata Zurich; and the Amsterdam and Romanian Sinfoniettas.