Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky (Russian: Дмитрий Юлианович Ситковецкий; born September 27, 1954) is a Soviet and American[1] violinist, conductor, and arranger.
Since 2003, Sitkovetsky has served as the Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina, to which he has brought such soloists as Emmanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Lynn Harrell, and Pinchas Zukerman.
Sitkovetsky's debut TEDx Talk, "The Power of Curiosity", focused on the importance and unexpected joy of thinking outside the box, as well as the need always to reinvent yourself.
He recently launched a new programme, "Transformation: the Art of reinvention at the time of the Pandemic”, live on his YouTube channel every Sunday and features conversations with his friends and colleagues such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Viktoria Mullova, Barry Douglas, and Roger Vignoles.
In 2015, he unveiled his transcription of Stravinsky's Le baiser de la fée, commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and premiered by Augustin Hadelich at Carnegie Hall; in the 2017/2018 season, a new multi-genre/multimedia work, Devil, Soldier & Violin (inspired by Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat) premiered in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall with sold-out performances across Russia.
This performance, which marked the festival's 25th anniversary, was broadcast live worldwide on Medici.tv, with an all-star lineup of musicians including Lisa Batiashvili, Leonidas Kavakos, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Tabea Zimmermann, and Pinchas Zukerman.