Vladimir Jurowski - biography
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Born in Moscow, a son of conductor Mikhail Jurowski, Vladimir
Jurowski completed the first part of his musical studies in
his native town at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory.
In 1990 he moved with his family to Germany where he continued
his studies at High Schools of Music in Dresden and in Berlin,
studying conducting with Rolf Reuter and vocal coaching with
Semion Skigin.
In 1995 he made his international debut at the Wexford Festival,
where he conducted Rimsky-Korsakov's May
Night. The same year saw his brilliant debut at the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in Nabucco.
In the 1996/97 season, Jurowski joined the ensemble of Komische
Oper Berlin. A season later he was given the title of First
Kapellmeister of the theatre. He continued working at the
Komische Oper on a permanent basis until 2001. Since 1997
Vladimir Jurowski has been a guest at some of the world's
leading musical institutions such as the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Opéra Bastille
de Paris, Théâtre de la Monnaie Bruxelles, Maggio
Musicale Festival Florence, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro,
Edinburgh Festival, Semperoper Dresden, and Teatro Comunale
di Bologna (where he served as Principal Guest Conductor between
2000 and 2003). In 1999 he made his debut at the Metropolitan
Opera New York with Rigoletto
and has returned on numerous occasions since.
During recent seasons he has made highly successful debuts
with such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Berlin
Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Russian National Orchestras,
as well as with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Philadelphia
Orchestras.
His operatic highlights have included The
Queen of Spades at the Metropolitan Opera, Parsifal
and Wozzeck at the Welsh
National Opera, War and Peace at the Opéra National de Paris as well as Eugene
Onegin at La Scala, and Die
Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola
and Macbeth at Glyndebourne
Opera.
Future symphonic engagements include concerts with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Jurowski's discography includes the first ever recording of
the cantata Exile by Giya Kancheli for ECM (1994), L'Etoile
du nord by Meyerbeer for Naxos-Marco Polo (1996), Werther
by Massenet for BMG (1999), and recently released live recordings
of works by Rachmaninov, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Tchaikovsky on the London Philharmonic Orchestra's own label. His first
of a series of recordings with the Russian National Orchestra,
featuring Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 3 and Stravinsky's Divertimento
from Le Baiser de la fée,
was released on PentaTone Classics in 2006 and it was followed
by the award-winning recording of Shostakovich Symphonies
No 1 and 6 released last year.
In January 2001 Vladimir Jurowski commenced his position as
Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and in 2003
he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic
Orchestra and a member of the Russian National Orchestra Conductor
Collegium. In 2005 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor
of the Russian National Orchestra, and last year he was also
announced as a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment.
September 2007 saw Vladimir Jurowski's first concert as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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