Dmitri Michailowitsch Jurowski

Dmitri Jurowski (also: Dmitri Mikhailovich Yurovsky, born November 6, 1979 in Moscow ) is a Russian-German conductor, musical director and chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater , the Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent and the Russian Philharmonic (Русская филармония ).

Life

Jurowski is the son of the conductor Michail Wladimirowitsch Jurowski and Eleonora Dmitrievna Taratuta, and he is the grandson of the composer Wladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski . His older brother is the conductor Vladimir Jurowski , his sister is the pianist and teacher Maria Dribinski (née Jurowskaja).

From the age of six he studied cello at the Central Music School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory , but had to leave his instrumental career because of osteoarthritis. In 1989 he emigrated to Germany with his family. He continued his studies in Berlin and Rostock . He studied at the conducting department of the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .

Jurowski was his father's assistant in the preparation of the recording of Boris Godunow (Berliner Rundfunkorchester) and in 2004 in the production of Parsifal at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. In 2005 he began an independent conducting career: he performed with the Munich Radio Orchestra, the orchestras of the National Theater of Rome, the comiche operas, the Teatro Massimo (Palermo), the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles as well as the Mikhailovsky Theater and the New Israeli Opera.

Since January 2011 Jurowski has been chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent as well as chief conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Philharmonic". In 2015 he became chief conductor and music director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater.

Web links

• Dmitri Jurowski at the Bolshoi Theater