Pavel Leonidowitsch Kogan

Pawel Leonidowitsch Kogan ( Russian Павел Леонидович Коган ; born June 6, 1952 in Moscow ) is a Russian conductor.

Life

Kogan is the son of the Russian violin virtuoso Leonid Kogan and his wife, the violinist Jelisaweta Gilels , the sister of the Russian pianist Emil Gilels . His sister is the pianist Nina Kogan .

Kogan studied violin with Yuri Yankelevich at the Central Music School in Moscow and then at the Moscow Conservatory . At the age of eighteen he won the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki . Subsequently, he was engaged as a concert soloist by orchestras in Russia, Europe, Japan and the USA.

At the same time, since 1970 he studied conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory with Ilya Musin and in Moscow with Leo Ginsburg. He made his conductor debut in 1972 with the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR . In the following years Kogan was active as a guest conductor. From 1988 to 1990 he was chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic . Since 1989, Kogan has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra .

In 1997, Kogan went on a concert tour of the United States , conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra , the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra . He is a member of the jury of the Rotary International Children 's Music Competition in Moscow. His first concert as the conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra was recorded live by RCA. His records include a. all Tchaikovsky symphonies, Prokofiev symphonies 1, 5 and 6 and the complete cycle of Mahler symphonies.

His son was the violin virtuoso Dmitri Pawlowitsch Kogan , who died in August 2017 at the age of only 38.

personal data
SURNAME	Kogan, Pavel Leonidowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Коган, Павел Леонидович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow