- Music Director & Principal Conductor, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra
Greek conductor Dimitris Botinis is currently Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra. He was previously Chief Conductor of the North Caucasus Philharmonic from 2015-2022, and from 2021-2023 he was Conductor at the Moscow Philharmonic, where he previously served as Assistant to Yuri Simonov between 2011 and 2021.
A winner of the 2006 Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Italy where he was awarded all special prizes and joint 2nd prize overall, he was also winner of the 1st All-Russian Music Competition in Moscow in 2011, and the recipient of the Prize for Young Culture Professionals of the Russian Federation for 2020.