Vladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski (conductor)

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Vladimir Jurowski in 2011.

Wladimir Michailowitsch Jurowski ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Юровский ; born April 4, 1972 in Moscow ) is a Russian conductor . He has been musical director of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival since 2001 and, since 2007, chief conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra as successor to Kurt Masur .

Life

Jurowski was born in Moscow as the son of the conductor Mikhail Vladimirovich Jurowski . He studied first with his father, later with Rolf Reuter and Sir Colin Davis . At the age of 23 he made his international debut at the Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland) in 1995 with the May Night of Rimski-Korsakow . In 1996 he conducted for the first time in Covent Garden ( Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi ).

After an engagement at the Komische Oper Berlin and guest conductors at major opera houses around the world (including the Opéra Bastille in Paris and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice ), Jurowski became musical director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in England in 2001 . In 2007 he took over the leadership of the London Philharmonic Orchestra as the successor to Kurt Masur , with which he had been the principal guest conductor since 2001.

Since October 24, 2011 Jurowski has been Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra). In 2019 he announced on Deutschlandfunk that he would end his work as chief conductor of this orchestra in Moscow for ecological reasons - he does not want to take any more air travel in the future. His contract was extended until 2021.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Jurowski also became Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB) as the successor to Marek Janowski on September 1, 2017 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Jurowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutschlandfunk, Das Ende der Jetset-Stars ?, radio broadcast on November 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Vladimir Jurowski to Continue as Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov” until 2021. In: IMG Artists. October 16, 2019 (English).;
  3. ↑ International Opera Awards 2018 . Retrieved April 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jurowski, Vladimir Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юровский, Владимир Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow