The winner and all special prizes holder of the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition (Italy, 2006), 1^st prize winner of the All-Russian Music Competition in specialty “Opera and symphony conducting” (Moscow, 2011). In 2021, he became a laureate of the Russian President’s Award for young cultural figures “for contribution to the development of the Russian music traditions and educational activities.” Since September 2024, he has been appointed Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, with which he regularly performed in previous seasons and successfully toured China in the 2023/2024 season.

This season, Dimitris Botinis conducts the orchestra’s opening and closing concerts, a concert at the “Arts Square” Winter Festival, and works by Messiaen, Stravinsky, Mahler, Prokofiev, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, R. Strauss, Ravel, Elgar, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, Dutilleux, Gubaidulina and A. Tchaikovsky.

Since 2022, Botinis is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra. The past seasons’ highlights include concerts with the orchestra in concert halls of Mariinsky theatre, “Zaryadye”, the State Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.  Extensive tour with concerts at the Grand Philharmonic Hall in St Petersburg, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, as well as the stages of the Perm Regional Philharmonic, the Tyumen Philharmonic and the Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic was dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of A. Katz. The 80^th anniversary of the Victory was dedicated to the “Bridge over time” collaboration project of the St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestras, which culminated in a tour of the two orchestras that jointly performed D. Shostakovich's “Leningrad” Symphony in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk.

From 2015 to 2022, Botinis was the Chief Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the North Caucasus State Philharmonic named after V.I. Safonov, being the orchestra’s Chief Guest Conductor in the 2022/2023 season as well.

Since 2011 the Assistant conductor, and from 2021 to 2023 – conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2011-2016, he participated in the “Musical Olympus” International Festival.

In 2012, the conductor made his debut with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and started his collaboration with the St Petersburg House of Music.

Maestro has toured in Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Estonia, South Korea, China, Belarus, Greece and Cyprus. By the Bavarian Radio’s order he has recorded works by Russian composers with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Botinis collaborates with leading Russian orchestras, including the Moscow and St Petersburg Philharmonics, the Russian National Orchestra, the “Evgeny Svetlanov” Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the “New Russia” Symphony Orchestra.

Dimitris Botinis was born in Moscow into the family of Dimitris Botinis Sr., who was his first conducting tutor. Graduated from the Municipal Conservatory of Patras (Greece) in the violin class. He studied the art of conducting under the supervision of Professor Yuri Simonov at master classes in Hungary, and then at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory which he graduated with honors.

September 2025