Dmitry Sinkovsky

{{Short description|Russian conductor, concertmaster, and violinist}}

Dmitry Evgenyevich Sinkovsky ({{langx|ru|Дмитрий Евгеньевич Синьковский}}) (born 1980, Moscow){{cite web |url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Sinkovsky-Dmitry.htm |title=Dmitry Sinkovsky (Violin, Counter-tenor, Conductor) |last=Oron |first=Aryeh |date=12 Feb 2022 |access-date=5 Sep 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.mosconsv.ru/ru/person/9064 |title=Синьковский Дмитрий Евгеньевич (in Russian) |author= |access-date=5 Sep 2023}} is a Russian virtuoso violinist, concertmaster, countertenor and conductor.{{cite web|url=https://www.seattlesymphony.org/watch-listen/beyondthestage/vivaldi-project|title=Meet Dmitry Sinkovsky, The Violinist Who Sings|website=www.seattlesymphony.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/news/meet-dmitry-sinkovsky-and-his-17th-century-travelling-companion-20170728-gxkob5|title=What does a 350-year-old violin sound like? See Dmitry Sinkovsky in Australia to find out.|date=28 July 2017|publisher=}} Sinkovsky started playing violin at age 5.{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/The-beauty-of-imperfection-544498|title=The beauty of imperfection|website=jpost.com}}

He has been a prizewinner in the Bach Competition (2006), Musica Antiqua Competition (2008), and Romanus Weichlein (2009). He has performed in Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia and the United States with such orchestras as the Canadian Arion Baroque Orchestra, Finnish Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, German Concerto Köln, Italian Il Giardino Armonico, Spanish Sevillian Orquesta Barroca, Australian Australian Brandenburg Orchestra,{{cite web|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/arts/russian-violinist-and-countertenor-dmitry-sinkovsky-rehearses-his-charms-with-the-brandenburg/news-story/f33f83e550373ca499d6b353b51f3e25?nk=30d54d51a419ee9fbc81909476fb1801-1532340678|title=Russian violinist and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky is out to charm Sydney and the Brandenburg|publisher=}} both Pratum Integrum and Musica Petropolitana of Russia and in the United States with the Seattle Symphony.{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/ponytail-with-passion-violinist-conductor-and-countertenor-dmitry-sinkovsky-plays-benaroya-hall/|title=Ponytail with passion: Russian triple threat Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya|date=7 May 2016|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/classical-music/dmitry-sinkovsky-plays-violin-sings-and-conducts-as-part-of-vivaldi-project-at-seattle-symphony/|title=Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony|date=12 October 2017|publisher=}}

In 2011, he founded the La Voce Strumentale ensemble in Moscow and from 2012 to 2014 was a conductor of Il Complesso Barocco. There he worked with the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, with whom he traveled to Europe and the United States. He has recorded numerous works with such German orchestras as WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, on the Caro Mitis label.{{cite web|url=http://www.naive.fr/en/artist/dmitry-sinkovsky|title=Dmitry Sinkovsky|publisher=Naïve|accessdate=January 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102195754/http://www.naive.fr/en/artist/dmitry-sinkovsky|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=dead}} Since 2005 he has worked as a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory where he teaches both viola and violin, and in September 2009 he received Francesco Ruggeri's violin at the Jumpstart Jr. Competition in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.{{cite web|url=http://www.sinkovsky.com/ |title=Dmitry Sinkovsky |publisher=Official Site |accessdate=January 2, 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106112354/http://www.sinkovsky.com/ |archivedate=January 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}