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ivan karabyts -lrb- father -rrb- 1995 -- kiev , ukrainian ssr 26 december 1976 kirill karabits.jpg kirill karabits
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kirill karabits

kirill karabits -lrb- born 26 december 1976 , in kiev in the ukrainian ssr of the soviet union -rrb- is a ukrainian conductor .
his father was the conductor and composer ivan karabyts .
in his youth , karabits studied piano , and developed an interest in conducting at age 13 .
his early teachers included tatiana kozlov .
in kiev , he studied at the lysenko music school , and later at the national tchaikovsky music academy .
in 1995 , he began studies at the vienna musikhochschule and earned a diploma in orchestral conducting after five years of study .
he also attended the internationale bachakademie stuttgart , where he was a pupil of helmuth rilling and peter gulke .
he has done scholarly work on the musical archive of the berliner singakademie , such as transcribing the 1784 `` johannes passion '' of carl philipp emanuel bach , which was thought to be lost .
karabits made his first public conducting appearance at age 19 .
he was assistant conductor of the budapest festival orchestra from 1998 to 2000 .
he also served as associate conductor of the orchestre philharmonique de radio france from 2002 to 2005 .
in october 2006 , karabits made his first conducting appearance with the bournemouth symphony orchestra -lrb- bso -rrb- , and returned in october 2007 , where both concerts received acclaim .
in november 2007 , the bso announced the appointment of karabits as their 13th principal conductor , after a unanimous vote from the orchestra musicians , effective with the 2009 -- 2010 season .
karabits held the title of principal conductor-designate for the 2008 -- 2009 season , with three concert appearances .
he made his first conducting appearance at the proms with the bso in august 2009 , and formally took up the bso principal conductorship in october 2009 .
he is the first ukrainian conductor to be named principal conductor of a uk orchestra .
his initial contract was for 4 years .
with the bso , karabits has recorded music of rodion shchedrin for the naxos label , and music of aram khachaturian for the onyx classics label .
in august 2011 , karabits and the bso agreed on a three-year extension of his contract as principal conductor through the 2015 -- 2016 season .
in april 2015 , the bso announced that karabits had signed a rolling contract as principal conductor , to extend his tenure to a minimum date of 2018 .
karabits first conducted the i , culture orchestra of poland in 2013 .
in september 2014 , the orchestra announced the appointment of karabits as its new artistic director .
in november 2014 , he made his first guest-conducting appearances with the staatskapelle weimar .
he first conducted a production at the deutsches nationaltheater and staatskapelle weimar in march 2015 .
based on these appearances , in july 2015 , the deutsches nationaltheater and staatskapelle weimar named karabits their next `` generalmusikdirector '' -lrb- gmd -rrb- and chief conductor , effective with the 2016-2017 season , with an initial contract of 3 years .
