Named as Conductor of the Year at the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, Kirill Karabits studied conducting and composition at the Lysenko Music School and continued his studies at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy and Vienna Hochschule für Musik.
Since 2008 Kirill Karabits has held the position of Chief Conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Together they have been recording a Prokofiev cycle since 2013, of which Symphony No. 5 was released to critical acclaim in July 2015 shortly before its performance at the BBC Proms.
From September 2016 Karabits assumes the position of General Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar and his first production with them will be Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg . Karabits has worked with many of the leading ensembles of Europe, Asia and North America, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Fransisco Symphony orchestras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice and the BBC Symphony. In spring 2016, he conducted the Russian National Orchestra on their tour of the US and returned to the RNO in August 2016 to conduct two concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival. Summer 2016 also saw his debut with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival.
A prolific opera conductor, the 2016-17 season saw his debuts at the Deutsche Oper (Boris Godunov) and Oper Stuttgart (Death in Venice). He has also conducted at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (La bohème and Eugene Onegin), Staatsoper Hamburg (Madama Butterfly), English National Opera (Don Giovanni), Bolshoi Theatre and he conducted a performance of Der fliegende Holländer at the Wagner Geneva Festival in celebration of the composer’s anniversary.
He was named Conductor of the Year at the 2013 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.
Chief Conductor: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
General Music Director and Principal Conductor: Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar (as of 2016/17)
Artistic Director: I,CULTURE Orchestra