Kirill Karabits
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Kirill Karabits (born 26 December 1976 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian conductor and the son of the composer Ivan Karabyts. He studied piano, composition, and conducting in Kyiv before continuing his training at the Vienna University of Music, and first appeared as a conductor at the age of nineteen. After early posts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, he gained international recognition through his long association with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Appointed principal conductor in 2009, he became the first Ukrainian to lead a major British orchestra and remained in the post until 2024, later becoming conductor laureate and artistic director of its Voices from the East project. Kirill Karabits is especially known for championing Eastern European, Ukrainian, Caucasian, and Central Asian composers alongside the standard symphonic repertoire. His recordings include music by Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, Rodion Shchedrin, and many lesser-known composers from the former Soviet sphere. In 2016, he became Generalmusikdirektor and chief conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, a position he left in the Summer of 2019. He has also taken part in important musical rediscoveries, including works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Franz Liszt. In 2026, he released a recording of the very rare Thomas de Hartmann opera, Esther, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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- Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by Kirill Karabits
- Spartacus: I. Introduction - Dance of the Nymphs by Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: 1. Andante - Allegro by Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: 3. Intermezzo (Allegro moderato) featuring Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: 4. Finale (Allegro tempestoso) featuring Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: 1. Andantino featuring Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: 2. Scherzo (Vivace) featuring Kirill Karabits
- Night on the Bare Mountain by Kirill Karabits
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op.18 - 2. Adagio sostenuto by Vanessa Benelli Mosell
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op.18 - 1. Moderato by Vanessa Benelli Mosell
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: 2. Tema con variazione by Kirill Karabits
- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: 3. Allegro ma non troppo by Kirill Karabits
- John Williams: Main Theme (From "Schindler's List") by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44: II. Andante by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44: I. Moderato by Kirill Karabits
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op.18 - 3. Allegro scherzando by Vanessa Benelli Mosell
- Tango - Por Una Cabeza featuring Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44: IV. Andante mosso - Allegro moderato by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 44: III. Allegro agitato - Allegretto by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: IV. Vivace - Moderato marcato by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: III. Andante esspressivo by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: II. Allegretto - Allegro by Kirill Karabits
- Symphony No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: I. Moderato by Kirill Karabits
