Dimitris Botinis

Dimitris Botinis was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. The conductor spent his childhood and youth in Greece. At the age of five, he began learning to play the violin, then the viola. The artist received his professional musical education at the Municipal Conservatory of Patras, from which he graduated with honors in the violin class. Dimitris Botinis began taking his first conducting lessons at the age of 14 from his father. The next important stage in this field was the participation of the musician in the master courses of Maestro Yuri Simonov in Hungary. This was followed by studies at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, which Dimitris Botinis graduated with honors with a degree in opera and symphony conducting in 2011 (class of Yuri Simonov).

Dimitris Botinis is the winner and winner of all special prizes of the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition (Italy, 2006), as well as the winner of the I All-Russian Music Competition in the specialty of Opera and Symphony conducting (Moscow, 2011). Since 2011 , the musician has been an assistant conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic (artistic director and chief conductor — Yu . Simonov).