Ukrainian conductor, chief conductor and artistic director of the National Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Award. People's Artist of Ukraine. Professor of the department of opera and symphonic conducting of the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
Biography
Teaching
1970-1976 — Khorolsk State Secondary School, teacher of accordion class M.O. Sokil.
1976-1980 — Poltava Music School named after M.Lysenko, the class of Honored Teacher of Ukraine O.D. Bilko (bayan) and teacher V.V. Zhornova (conducting).
1980-1985 — Kyiv State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, orchestra faculty, class of associate professor S. O. Krapyva (bayan); professor A. A. Semeshko (conducting).
1984-1989 — Kyiv State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, conducting faculty, professor A. G. Vlasenko's class (opera-symphonic conducting).
Creative activity
His conducting debut took place in 1983 on the stage of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine (the concert program includes works by Stravinsky, Boulez, and Schoenberg).
1989-1993 — assistant to the chief conductor of the State Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine I.I. Blazhkov, later second conductor of the orchestra.
In 1990, he became a finalist (diploma) of the Vaclav Talikh International Conducting Competition in Prague.
Since 1992 he taught at the Kyiv Conservatory,
1991-1999 — artistic director and chief conductor of the Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine.
Since 1999, he has been the artistic director and chief conductor of the National Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.
2011-2014 — chief conductor of the National Ensemble "Kyiv Soloists".
Honors and awards
Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997)
Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2001)
People's Artist of Ukraine (2008)
Knight of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V degree (2018)
Basic programs
J. S. Bach - Mass in B minor, "Passion according to Matthew", "Passion according to John", "Passion according to Mark", "Passion according to Luke"
H. Berlioz - "The Condemnation of Faust"
Gustav Mahler. Symphonies No. 1-9, "Song of the Earth"
K. Debussy - "The Passion of Saint Sebastian"
A. Onegger - "Jeanne D'Arc at the hearth"
B. Lyatoshynskyi. Symphonies No. 1-5
V. Silvestrov - "Requiem for Larisa". Symphonies No. 7-9 (world premieres)
E.Stankovich - "Requiem for those who died of hunger", "Kaddish-requiem", "Word about Igor's campaign" (world premiere), "Passion for Taras" (world premiere)
I. Karabyts - "Spell of fire", "Garden of divine songs", Concertos for orchestra No. 1-3.
Yu. Lanyuk - "Mourning Mother" (world premiere).
Director
K. Tsepkolenko - chamber opera "The Fate of Dorian" (1991), opera studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, stage director Valentyn Shchogoliv.
V. Gubarenko - opera-oratorio "Remember, my brothers" (1992), concert performance.
I. Stravinsky — opera-oratorio "Oedipus the King" (1998), Kyiv, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, stage director Vasyl Vovkun.
J. Puccini - opera "Sister Angelica" (2003), National Philharmonic of Ukraine, stage director Tetiana Zozulya.
J. Verdi - the opera "Rigoletto" (2003), opera studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, stage director Valentyn Shchogoliv.
K. Orf — stage cantata "Carmina Buran" (2007), Kyiv, Singing Pole, stage director Vasyl Vovkun.
P. Tchaikovsky — opera "Iolanta" (2007), opera studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, production director Iryna Nesterenko.
K. V. Glyuk - opera "Orpheus and Eurydice" (2010), opera studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, production director Larisa Levanova.
E.Stankovich - folk opera "When the Fern Blooms" (2017), Lviv National Opera, stage director Vasyl Vovkun.
Ye.Stankovich - opera "Terrible Revenge" (2022), Lviv National Opera, stage director Andreas Weirich
Tours
Toured in: Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, China, Korea, Lebanon, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, USA, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Japan.
Orchestras
Conducted orchestras:
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sinfonia Varsovia
Polish Radio Orchestra (NOSPR)
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Israel Sinfonietta
Bratislava Radio Orchestra,
Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, USA. etc..
Scenes
Performed on famous stages: Paris Opera Comique Theater and Champs-Élysées Theater (France), Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Berlin Philharmonic, Manuel de Falla Center (Granada), People's Philharmonic Hall (Warsaw), Barbican Hall and Cadogan Hall (London). , Seoul Art Center (Korea), Roy Thompson Hall (Toronto), Tokyo Opera City Hall, Brucknerhaus Linz, etc.
Recording
Made more than 200 recordings for the funds of Ukrainian Radio, which include Mozart's symphonies No. 38.41, Beethoven's No. 9, Dvořák's No. 7,9, "German Requiem" by Brahms, "Bells" by Rachmaninoff. He has recorded more than 50 CDs, and the CD album "Requiem for Larisa" by Valentin Sylvestrov was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005. Recorded music for films by Ukrainian and foreign composers (about 40 games, documentaries, animated films).
Mission
One of the main directions in Volodymyr Sirenko's work is the performance and popularization of the works of Ukrainian composers, among which are the works of Z. Almashi, H. Havrilets, V. Gubarenko, L. Dychko, I. Karabyts, Y. Lanyuk, B. Lyatoshinskyi, S. Lunyov, H. Lyashenko, V. Poleva, L. Revutsky, V. Sylvestrov, M. Skoryk, E. Stankovich, O. Shimko, I. Shcherbakov.
Civic position
In 2000, V. Sirenko was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation", but in 2014, with the beginning of Russian aggression, he refused this title. In 2022, with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, he refused to perform the works of Russian composers, and in 2023 he resigned from the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Sciences due to the reluctance of the staff of the institution to renounce the name of a Russian composer against the background of Russian aggression.
