Aarhus Symphony Orchestra & Dmitry Matvienko
Biographie Aarhus Symphony Orchestra & Dmitry Matvienko
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
(Aarhus Symfoniorkester) was founded in 1935 and resides in the award-winning Symphonic Hall at Musikhuset Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark. The Orchestra’s 66 permanent musicians are led by the respected French chief conductor Marc Soustrot, with the legendary Leif Segerstam acting as honorary conductor.
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra attracts a large and diverse audience through weekly subscription concerts, family concerts, chamber concerts and large-scale collaborative concerts with festivals and concert halls throughout Denmark. In addition, the Orchestra maintains a permanent cooperation with the Danish National Opera (Den Jyske Opera) and has recorded a substantial amount of both Danish contemporary works and standard classical repertoire on cd.
Deeply invested in the community surrounding it, the Orchestra performs social outreach concerts and arranges free school concerts, playing for more than 10.000 children annually. In 2018, the Orchestra has added a new ambitious family project for pre-school children and their parents to their activity roster called “Musikkens B rn” (The Children of Music).
From 2021-25 the orchestra expands its activities with a series of new concert formats: “KonTAKT” (Contact), “VelLyd” (Wellbeing through sound) and “Fyraftenskoncerter” (After hours concerts). These are all formats that expand the regular concert experience by putting the audiences’ needs front and center, either offering direct contact and interaction with the orchestra, by providing a space for relaxation and contemplation, or simply by facilitating after hours social setting with music.
Dmitry Matvienko
is the Chief Conductor of the Aarhus Symfoniorkester since the 2024/25 season, marking a significant milestone in a career that has already established him as one of the most compelling conductors of his generation. Known for his artistic maturity and interpretive depth, he has led numerous renowned orchestras across Europe, Asia, and America.
He rose to international attention after winning First Prize and the Audience Prize at the prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors. Prior to that, he was awarded both the Critics’ Prize and the “Made in Italy” Prize at the Guido Cantelli International Conducting Competition.
Matvienko has conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the DR Symfoniorkestret, Oslo-Filharmonien, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Orchestra Sinfon-ica Nazionale della RAI, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien. Additional engagements include the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orchestre National de Lille, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Orches-tre de Chambre de Lausanne, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and numerous Italian institutions such as the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He has also worked extensively with the Russian National Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Arktisk Filharmoni, the Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
His operatic activity includes productions of Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Italian premiere of Warli-kowski’s staging of From the House of the Dead at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and a new production of Betrothal in a Monastery at the Theater an der Wien. In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debut at the Opéra national de Paris with Aida.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season also include debuts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, and Malmö Opera Orchestra.
Born in Belarus, Matvienko began his music studies at the age of six. He studied choral conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and later joined the Music Aeterna Choir under Teodor Currentzis. He then completed conducting studies at the Moscow Conservatory, taking part in mas-terclasses with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, Teodor Currentzis, and Vasily Petrenko.
In 2017, he joined the conductor internship program of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Vladimir Spivakov, and later assisted conductors including Jurowski and Petrenko with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra.
He has conducted the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, NFOR, New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, and Musica Viva Moscow, leading revivals of operas such as Prince Igor, Faust, Iolanta, La Traviata, The Tsar’s Bride, The Firebird, and Verdi’s Requiem at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus.
He also served as musical assistant to Vladimir Jurowski for productions of The Nose (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov) and War and Peace (directed by Dmitri Tcher-niakov) at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Maestro Fabio Luisi has praised him as follows: “Dmitry Matvienko is a complete musician with exceptional conducting skills. A superb technique, paired with a deep knowledge of the repertoire, makes him an exceptional conductor, both for opera and for symphonic projects.”
