GRAMMY^® Award-nominated cellist/conductor Dmitry Yablonsky was born in Moscow into a musical family. At a very early age he showed musical talent, and at six was accepted into the Moscow Central Special Music School for Gifted Children. Yablonsky moved to New York in June 1977 and was accepted into The Juilliard School.

Yablonsky began conducting in 1989 in Camerino, Italy and has since been very active as a conductor. He has collaborated with orchestras such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Moscow Soloists, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian State, St Petersburg, Jerusalem and Israel Symphony Orchestras, Rishon LeZion, the Tenerife and Lamoureux Orchestras, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Belgian National Orchestra and the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM. Yablonsky is an artistic director of the Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra, which performs repertoire from Vivaldi to Mahler.

Yablonsky has collaborated with artists including Montserrat Caballé, Olga Borodina, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Berezovsky, Roberto Alagna, Krzysztof Penderecki, Dmitrij Kitajenko and Vadim Repin. He has been very active in organising international music festivals and in 2009, together with pianist Farhad Badabeyli, organised a large-scale festival in Gabala, Azerbaijan, featuring many renowned orchestras and musicians. He has made more then 80 albums for Naxos, Chandos, Warner Classics and Erato Records.