Just in: UK’s Ukrainian conductor steps down
NewsIt has been announced this morning that Kirill Karabits will cease to be Chief Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from the summer of 2024. He will have completed 15 years, longer than anyone apart from the orchestra’s founder Dan Godfrey, who led from 1893 to 1934.
Karabits will become Conductor Laureate and Artistic Director of a new Bournemouth project Voices from the East, focused on symphonies from his homeland.
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Good luck Kirill – I hope this venture will be hugely successful.
Sorry you are stepping down but a heartfelt thanks for all your hard work and everything you have accomplished to raise the profile of the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony orchestra.
Wishing you good health and success in your future projects.
Bournmouth has had some great conductors for a very unlikely orchestra.
We used to go to various venues when I was a kid inc the wonderful sounding much regretted methodist church in Swindon where they used to play, conducted by the fantastic George Hurst, and led as usual by Brendan O’Brian.
When the concerts moved to the horrible sounding Wyvern Theatre, the magic had gone, but they did play all over Wiltshire, often in great sounding parish churches (remember Ralph Holmes doing Beethoven in one of them…..)
Sorry to hear you think the magic has gone. There have been many magical occasions in many venues across the south and west of England, the north and abroad in the last 40 odd years. I also remember Ralph Holmes playing the Beethoven!
Heard him conduct one of the finest Beethoven First Symphony performances I have attended. At the Barbican just before the pandemic. Taut, thrilling and full of wit.
He had a good run in Bournemouth. I think he has his eyes set on more prestigious posts.