Volodymyr Sirenko

The longtime artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko is among his country's most prominent and most honored conductors. He is also a prominent educator. Sirenko has made various albums that have found distribution in the West. One of those is a recording of Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, with cellist Raphaela Gromes, issued in 2024 on the Sony Classical label. Sirenko was born in Pokrovska Bagachka, Ukraine, then in the Soviet Union, on November 1, 1960. His first instrument was the bayan (a Russian accordion), which he...