NEW YORK (AP) — Kirill Petrenko thought about the challenge of leading the Berlin Philharmonic, perhaps the world’s greatest orchestra. “A hundred musicians have 100 opinions and 100 ...
There are five Americans, including Noah Bendix-Balgley, one of the three concertmasters. Petrenko was born in Omsk, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1972 and moved as a teenager to Austria.