Kyrylo Ivanovych Karabyts (born 26 December 1976) is a Ukrainian conductor, the son of Ukrainian composer Ivan Karabyts.
He was born in Kyiv.
Education.
He graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Secondary Specialised Music School, then from the Kyiv Conservatory, class of professors Roman Kofman (opera and symphony conducting) and Levko Venediktov (choral conducting).
In 1995 and 1996, he was a trainee at the Bach Summer Academy in Stuttgart.
He graduated from the Vienna Academy of Music (1998-2002).
During his studies, he found in the archives of the Berlin Singing Academy the sheet music of Telemann's opera Pastorelle en Musique and the Passion according to Johannes F. E. Bach, which were considered lost.
Creative path
In 1995, he made his debut as a conductor with the National Soloists Ensemble "Kyiv Camerata", where he worked for four years.
In 1998-2000, he worked with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and in 2002-2005 - with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the French Radio.
In 2005-2007, he was the chief guest conductor of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 2007 (formally since 2008), he has been the 13th Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Under the leadership of Kirill Karabits, the orchestra has been voted "The World's Favourite Orchestra".
Kyrylo Karabits made his North American debut in March 2009, and has since worked regularly in the United States with orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles and others.
In September 2014, after almost a year of critically acclaimed work with the ensemble, he became Artistic Director of the I, CULTURE Orchestra (ICO).
Since 2005, he has worked as a conductor and director in theatres: Glyndebourne Festival, Opera du Rhin, Grand Theatre of Geneva, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Stuttgart, Opera de Lyon, Zurich Opera House
In 2012, he made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow with the opera Eugene Onegin, and in the summer of 2013 he staged La bohème there.
In 2016, Kirill Karabits became the new music director and chief conductor of the German National Theatre and the State Chapel in Weimar, Germany.
"My first opening concert as Chief Conductor and Music Director of the German National Theatre and the State Chapel will begin with a symphonic poem by Liszt, who lived in Weimar, entitled Mazepa. With this I want to emphasise the Ukrainian theme, which will definitely be in my future programmes. ... Cultural policy should be in the foreground. Culture makes us Ukrainians, not politics. ... We need to invest in culture." "
With the Weimar Chapel, Karabits toured the United States for the first time in the orchestra's history, and recorded unknown works by Liszt (including the first recording of Sardanapalo, which was reconstructed by English musicologist David Triplett) with the Audite company.
In 2017, Kyrylo Karabyts performed in Moscow with the Russian National Orchestra, the concert programme included works by Ukrainian composers Mykola Lysenko, V. Silvestrov and B. Liatoshynsky, and in December 2019, he performed with the orchestra of Mikhail Pletnev, the only Russian musician who did not sign a letter in support of the annexation of Crimea.
On 30 December 2020, Kyrylo Karabyts conducted the premiere of the discovered symphonies by Maksym Berezovsky performed by the National chamber ensemble Kyiv Soloists, National chamber ensemble. The Berezovsky-275 concert took place at St Andrew's Church and was broadcast online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In May 2021, at the Europe Day in Kyiv, he presented the rediscovered ballet "On the Banks of the Dnipro" by Fedir Yakymenko, which he found in the Paris Municipal Archives. For the premiere, a large symphony orchestra consisting of the Kyiv Soloists and the National Presidential Orchestra of Ukraine was specially assembled under the baton of Kyrylo Karabyts.
Orchestras
Kyrylo Karabyts at a concert at the Lviv Opera House, 30 June 2015
Berlin Symphony Orchestra,
Frankfurt Radio Orchestra,
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan),
Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra (Australia),
National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil in São Paolo,
Lyon Symphony Orchestra (France),
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (Norway),
"Young German Philharmonic,
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra (Finland),
Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano (Italy), Orchestra of Lucerne (Switzerland),
Latvian Philharmonic Orchestra
and others.
Director
in the 2007/2008 season - productions at the opera houses of Geneva, Strasbourg, Nancy (France).
in 2008 - staged the opera Eugene Onegin at the Glyndebourne Festival (England) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Awards.
He was awarded the prize of the Danish Conductors Association at the Nikolai Malkin International Competition for Young Conductors (1998),
Award of the Austrian Albert Schweitzer Society (Vienna, 1998),
the European Foundation Prize for Young Conductor under the patronage of Prince Henrik of Denmark (Brussels, 1998),
honorary citizen of the state of Oklahoma (USA),
Laureate of the Mario Gusella International Conducting Competition (Italy),
The Royal Philharmonic Society named him the best conductor of 2012 (UK).
Ukrainian conductor Kyrylo Karabyts received the Royal Society of Music Award, the most prestigious classical music award in the UK.
On 6 October 2014, the well-known web portal Bachtrack announced the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kirill Karabits as the World's Favourite Orchestra 2014 in an online vote. Also, the I, CULTURE Orchestra (ICO), conducted by Kirill Karabits, was among the top twenty most rated orchestras in the world
