Vitali Alekseenok fascinates with his pervading musicality and well-rounded interpretations, as well as his open and at the same time profound personality as one of the most exciting talents of the young generation of conductors.
Since August 2024, he has been Chief Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he started as Kapellmeister in autumn 2022. In the 2025/26 season, he conducts premieres of "Fidelio" (concert version) and "Elektra" and revivals of "Die Walküre", "Le nozze di Figaro" and "Tosca" in Düsseldorf and Duisburg.
His 2025/26 season also includes significant debuts: with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresdner Philharmonie, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Wiener Symphoniker, Philharmonie Zuidnederland and Orchestre National de Montpellier, as well as with the Opéra National de Lyon ("Boris Godunow") and the Semperoper Dresden ("Madama Butterfly").
In 2024/25, Vitali Alekseenok led the premiere of "Nabucco" and "Lady Macbeth of Mzensk" at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, alongside revivals of "La Traviata", "Das Rheingold", and "Eugene Onegin". He also conducted concerts of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Duisburger Philharmoniker. Guest appearances included the Staatsoper Hamburg (ballet), Deutsche Oper Berlin, and symphonic engagements with the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz, Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, and Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester. He also returned to the Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania in his role as Principal Guest Conductor, which he has held since 2022, with Mahler's Third Symphony and the "Trilogia dell'estasi", a contemporary dance performance set to Debussy's "L'Après-midi d'un faune", Ravel's "Boléro", and Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps".
In previous seasons, Vitali Alekseenok was a guest at the Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Florence, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Dublin, Klangforum Wien, Münchner Kammerorchester, Staatskapelle Weimar, MDR-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Sofia Philharmonic and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, among others, as well as at the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Salzburg Festival. His debut with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, stepping in for Tugan Sokhiev on short notice, was received enthusiastically by orchestra, audience and press alike.
In the operatic field, he conducted the world premiere of Pierangelo Valtinoni‘s "Il piccolo principe" at the Scala di Milano and the first Ukrainian performance of Wagner’s "Tristan und Isolde" at the National Opera in Kyiv. The world premiere of Olga Podgaiskaya’s "King Stakh's Wild Hunt", conducted by him at London’s Barbican Centre, was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Vitali Alekseenok studied trombone in Minsk, as well as conducting in St. Petersburg and Weimar. In 2021, he won the first prize at the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma, where he also received the Audience Award and the prize for the best performance of a Verdi opera.
He is the author of the book "The White Days of Minsk" (Die weißen Tage von Minsk, S. Fischer Frankfurt, 2021) and has been Artistic Director of the KharkivMusicFest in Ukraine since June 2021.