Mikhail Vladimirovich Jurowski

Michail Wladimirowitsch Jurowski ( Russian Михаил Владимирович Юровский ; born December 25, 1945 in Moscow ) is a Russian conductor .

Life

He is the son of the composer Vladimir Jurowski (1915–1972). At the age of 24 he became an assistant to Gennady Roshdestvensky at the Great Symphony Orchestra of the State Radio and Television in Moscow. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Ginsburg and Alexei Kandinski. He then worked at the Stanislavsky and Nemirowitsch-Danchenko Music Theater and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

From 1978 Jurowski was a permanent guest conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin . In 1989 he was engaged at the Semperoper Dresden . He has lived entirely in Germany since 1990.

From 1992 to 1997 Michail Jurowski was general music director and chief conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic in Herford , then until 1999 general music director of the Volkstheater of the Hanseatic City of Rostock and of the North German Philharmonic at the Volkstheater Rostock and, between 1998 and 2006, permanent guest conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin .

This was followed by a permanent activity with important orchestras in Scandinavia ( Malmö Symphony Orchestra , Odense Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra ) and in Argentina ( Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires in the Teatro Colón ). 1999–2001 he was chief conductor of the Leipzig Opera . Michail Jurowski was chief conductor of the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln from 2006 to the end of 2008 , and since 2003 first guest conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria .

His sons Wladimir (* 1972) and Dmitri (* 1979) are also conductors. His daughter Maria is a pianist and teacher.

literature

• Michael Ernst: Michail Jurowski. Conductor and cosmopolitan. Memories . Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-89487-781-1 .