The winner and all special prizes holder of the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition (Italy, 2006), first prize winner of the All-Russian Music Competition in the specialty “opera and symphony conducting” (Moscow, 2011). In 2021, Botinis was awarded the Russian President’s Prize for young cultural leaders – for his contribution to the development of the Russian music art traditions and educational activities.

Since September 2024, Dimitris Botinis has been appointed Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, which he had regularly performed with in the past seasons and successfully toured in China last winter. This season, under the baton of Dimitris Botinis, the orchestra’s opening and closing concerts will be held, featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Mozart, Berg, Mahler, as well as the Seventh and Tenth Symphonies by Shostakovich (to mark the 80^th anniversary of Victory and the 50^th anniversary of the St Petersburg Philharmonia’s naming after the composer), a musical evening will be held as part of the “Arts Square” Winter Festival and many other bright events.

In September 2022 Botinis accepted the offer of the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra and became its Artistic Director and Chief Conductor. The past seasons’ highlights include the joint performances of the conductor and the orchestra in concert halls of Mariinsky Theatre, “Zaryadye”, the State Philharmonic and Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus. An extensive concert tour of 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.M. Katz.

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.

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.