Victor Kissine (1953, Saint-Petersburg) graduated and received a PhD from
Saint-Petersburg  Conservatory. Since 1990 settled  in Belgium. Works for
orchestra, concertos, for chamber ensembles, soloists, two operas,
ballets,  film scores. Premiéres:  San Francisco Symphony (under the
direction of Michael Tilson Thomas), New World Symphony, Berlin Komische
Oper, St-Petersbourg Philarmonic, Dusseldorf Philharmonic, RAI National
Symphony Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium
(conducted by Andrey Boreyko),  ensembles Musiques Nouvelles (monographic
CD), Oxalys, L'Itinéraire, Chamber Society of the Lincoln Center, the
festivals of Salzburg, Lockenhaus (twice composer-in-residence), Ars
Musica, Musica, La Jolla, Music Mountain, ISCM World Days, the Queen
Elisabeth Competition 2012. Since 2001, frequent collaboration with  Gidon
Kremer and Kremerata Baltica (three disks at ECM).  Awarded the Tokyo
Irino Prize Foundation (1995),
the  Académie de Lutèc (1993), the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik
(2011).
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, and at the INSAS.

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