National Opera in 2010 in Don Giovanni and the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Boris Godunov in 2017. He conducted the premiere in Paris of Les orages désirés by Gérard Condé in 2003. accessed 24 November 2020., and his performance of Sardanapalo by Liszt in Weimar, doing "all he can to inject drama, his tempos are natural and properly pliant" was later issued on CD by Audite. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra In October 2006, Karabits made his first conducting appearance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), 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. The BSO appointment marks Karabits' first chief conductorship. 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. 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. In January 2023, the Bournemouth SO announced that Karabits is to stand down as its chief conductor at the close of the 2023-2024, and subsequently to take the title of conductor laureate and serve as artistic director of the orchestra's Voices from the East project. With the BSO, Karabits has recorded music of Rodion Shchedrin for the Naxos label, and music of Aram Khachaturian for the Onyx Classics label. Personal Life Karabits and his wife have two children. References External links AskonasHolt agency page biography of Kirill Karabits Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, French-language biography of Kirill Karabits Classical CD Review, review of Naxos 8.572405, recording of Rodion Shchedrin's Concerti for Orchestra Nos. 4 and 5, and Khrustal'niye gusli Ukrainian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Musicians from Kyiv 1976 births Living people 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century male musicians