Slobodeniouk’s calm, clean direction helped hold the sprawling symphony tightly together, ensuring that even the softest, slowest-moving passages had a compelling edge.

Baltimore Sun

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and the orchestra carried over their good balances and clearly defined textures into scintillating accounts of two popular symphonic poems by Richard Strauss.

The Australian

The SSO under clear and decisive direction from conductor Dima Slobodeniouk with guest concertmaster Raphael Christ, gave performances of vital intensity, brilliant colour and well-pointed precision, full of surging and occasionally lubricious spirit.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Finely modelled sound aesthetic in which dance-like lightness and transparency flourished...

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Biography

About Dima

Praised for his exhilarating approach and energetic leadership by musicians and audiences alike, Dima Slobodeniouk has become one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation. Slobodeniouk works with the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Concertgebouworkest and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Last season, he was praised for giving “one of the most auspicious New York Philharmonic debuts of recent years” by the New York Times.

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