FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Kirill karabits - Caught on Camera

Bristol Proms/BBC Singers/Jeannin and BSO/Karabits/Glennie review – celebratory and thoughtful

The BBC Singers celebrated their centenary in style, while the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra marked a milestone with the departure of Karabits as chief conductor

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26, 2024

The week in classical: how a charity is changing lives through music in ‘poor door’ Battersea

A sparkling solo show by the British percussionist in a community venue next to the US Embassy is doubly inspiring. And the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra fire on all cylinders in Kirill Karabits’s final season

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2024

BSO/Karabits/Kim review – new name, new look and new sound heralds bright future for Bristol

What was formerly Colston Hall reopened with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits on blazing form

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2023

Così fan tutte review – probing and insightful staging is wonderfully conducted by Karabits

Director Martin Lloyd-Evans prises open Mozart’s opera’s emotional complexity in a production that might be set in traditional dress but engages with today’s concerns

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2023

The Dead City review – study of grief, guilt and obsession unsettles and enraptures

Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2023

Bournemouth SO review – I’ve not heard Karabits and his orchestra do anything better

The Ukrainian conductor led his orchestra through a programme of Ukrainian and Russian music, culminating in a near perfect performance of Shostakovich’s Fourth

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2023

BBCSO/Karabits review – Ukraine speaks out through its music

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s guest conductor Kirill Karabits and pianist Anna Fedorova brought music from their homeland to an enthusiastic audience

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2023

Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – Ukraine’s musical past takes centre stage

A century after its composition, Feodor Akimenko’s Cello Concerto finally had its premiere, in an outstanding concert that also featured Stravinsky and Mahler

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

From Flux Gourmet to Björk: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you’re after director Peter Strickland’s descent into the decadently weird or the Icelandic conjurer’s latest aural opus, our critics have you covered

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – unanswerable conviction and a standing ovation

The Ukranian-born chief conductor brought the crowd to their feet before and after a powerful programme of Sibelius, Bax and Elizabeth Ogonek

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2022