Kirill Petrenko is a Russian-Austrian conductor. His father was a violinist and his mother a musicologist. Kirill Petrenko studied piano as a youth and made his debut as a pianist at the age of 11. After studying music in Vienna, Kirill Petrenko conducted his first opera at the Volksoper in 1995. Kirill Petrenko is currently the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
