Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis , also Teodoros Kurentzis ( Greek Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born February 24, 1972 in Athens ) is a Greek-Russian conductor , musician and actor .
Life
Teodor Currentzis attended violin courses at the National Conservatory in Athens from the age of twelve . In 1987 he began studying conducting in Athens before continuing to study with Ilya Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1994 to 1999 .
From 2004 to 2010 Currentzis was chief conductor at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Novosibirsk , the largest opera house in Siberia . There he founded the MusicAeterna Ensemble and the New Siberian Chamber Choir and has received several awards for his work there. In 2006 Currentzis conducted concerts with the singer Alexey Kudrya in Moscow and Novosibirsk on the occasion of the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
Currentzis was from February 2011 until summer 2019 music director of the Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm . In addition, since 2011 he has been the first permanent guest conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg .
Currentzis took on the lead role in the 2011 film Dau by director Ilja Chrschanowski , which depicts the life of the Russian-Jewish Nobel Prize winner in physics, Lev Landau .
On September 11, 2016, the French-German TV channel arte broadcast the Austrian documentary Currentzis - The Classic Rebel .
In 2017 Currentzis conducted for the first time at the Salzburg Festival . He has been chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the 2018/19 season .
Honourings and prices
- Currentzis won the Golden Mask Award of the Russian Theater Association in 2004 for his performance in the performance of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi , in 2007 for Cinderella , a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev and in 2011 for Best Opera Conductor for Alban Bergs Wozzeck at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. He received the same award in 2015 for Best Opera Conductor at the Perm Opera.
- In 2008 he received the Russian Order of Friendship .
- In 2013, Currentzis was again awarded the Golden Mask for conducting the opera Così fan tutte at the Perm Opera.
- In 2014 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik in the Opera Recording of the Year category for the recording of Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro .
- In 2016 he was named "Conductor of the Year" in the Opernwelt's critics' survey .
- In 2016 he received the KAIROS Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation .
- In 2018 he was appointed commander of the Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic .
- 2019 Bremen Music Festival Prize
Discography
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- 2008: Henry Purcell : Dido and Aeneas , with the New Siberian Singers ; Soloists: Simone Kermes , Deborah York , Dimitris Tiliakos, Oleg Ryabets
- 2010: Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch : Symphony No. 14 , with MusicAeterna ; Soloists: Julia Korpacheva, Pyotr Migunow .
- 2011: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem , with MusicAeterna and the New Siberian Singers ; Simone Kermes, Stephanie Houtzeel , Markus Brutscher , Arnaud Richard.
- 2014: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Le nozze di Figaro , with MusicAeterna ; Soloists: Simone Kermes, Andrei Bondarenko, Fanie Antonelou, Christian Van Horn
- 2015: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Così fan tutte , with MusicAeterna .
- 2015: Igor Stravinsky : Le sacre du printemps , with MusicAeterna .
- 2016: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Don Giovanni , with MusicAeterna .
- 2016: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto op.35 , with MusicAeterna , soloist: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- 2017: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Symphony No. 6 ( Pathétique ), with MusicAeterna (Sony, also released as LP ).
- 2018: Gustav Mahler : 6th Symphony , with MusicAeterna .
- 2019: Ludwig van Beethoven : 5th Symphony (Sony)
Movies
- 2016: Teodor Currentzis: Der Klassikrebell , documentary by Christian Berger , Arte
- 2018: Conduction , director: Alexey Loginov, documentary
- 2018: the language of our dreams. The conductor Teodor Currentzis , documentary by Andreas Ammer
Web links
- Teodor Currentzis at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Homepage of Teodor Currentzis
- Detailed vita, Ernst von Siemens - Music Foundation
- »The Currentzis Effect« , portrait of Hartmut Welscher in VAN Magazine, May 24, 2017
- IMDb
Individual evidence
- ↑ New fire for the province. In: FAZ . November 14, 2011, p. 28.
- ↑ Why Teodor Currentzis is leaving the Perm Opera. In: SWR2 . June 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Alexander Dick: The system critic . In: Badische Zeitung, December 21, 2011, accessed on September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Teodor Currentzis becomes chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra .
- ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2014 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 26, 2014
- ↑ Conductor of the Year 2016 - Art and Cult. . In: Opernwelt 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ KAIROS Prize Winner 2016: Teodor Currentzis , alfred-toepfer-stiftung.de, accessed on March 15, 2017.
- ↑ Moscow 〓 Teodor Currentzis gave Order of the Phoenix from the Greek government | Around the Music Festival. Retrieved October 1, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ https://www.musikfest-bremen.de/news/artikel/musikfest-preis-2019- geht-an-teodor-currentzis/News/detail /
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany Austria
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| SURNAME | Currentzis, Teodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurentzis, Teodor; Κουρεντζής, Θεόδωρος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek conductor, musician and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens , Greece |