Dmitri Jurowski
Dmitri Jurowski (born 1979) is a Russian conductor.
Early life and education
Jurowski was born in Moscow in 1979. At the age of 6 he began practicing cello at the Moscow Conservatory and then moved with his family to Berlin where he attended Musikschule C.Ph.E.. Later on, he moved again, this time to the Rostock Academy of Music and Drama where he continued on his cello studies. In April 2003 he began attending conducting lessons at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and soon after became an assistant conductor of Prokofiev's Boris Godunov which he conducted along with his father, Mikhail Jurowski, for the Berlin Radio Orchestra.[1][2]
Career
Assistant conductor
In September 2004, he became an assistant conductor of Parsifal at the Genoan Teatro Carlo Felice under guidance of Harry Kupfer and then conducted another Prokofiev's opera called the Love for Three Oranges along with Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana. The play appeared in 23 theatres of Northern Italy which brought him a huge success since after it he was invited to the Martina Franca Festival. In 2005 he performed and recorded for Dynamic and Cherubini Requiem labels Luigi Cherubini's Lo Sposo di tre e il Marito di Nessuna. Later on, along with Munich Radio Orchestra he performed Rimsky-Korsakov's both Mozart and Salieri and the Golden Cockerel following by Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and another Love for Three Oranges.[1][2]
Conductor
As a conductor, Jurowski conducted in both Residence Orchestra of The Hague as well as the Orchestra Sinfonica del Lazio. He also played a gala concert in Parma and was a guest conductor at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna where he performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 7. He also played then in such opera houses and theatres as the La Fenice, Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro Filarmonico Orchestra. He also made a trip to China with the same performance and played at the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra there.[2]
From 2007 to 2008 he made such debuts as Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia and various appearances with Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma as well as New Year’s Day's performance in New York. He also participated at the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut where he played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Brahms' German Requiem.[1][2]
In June 2007 he performed Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka at the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland[3] and by fall 2008 was invited to perform Rimsky-Korsakov's the Snow Maiden. During the same year he also performed both Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and the Bat of Johann Strauss the second at both the Dresden Philharmonic and the Liege Opera of Belgium. The plays also played in Lisbon's Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa, the New Israeli Opera and even the Mihailovsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg.[1]
In 2009 he appeared at the Vlaamse Opera where he played another Tchaikovsky's operas called Mazeppa and Queen of Spades at Vlaamse Opera and Opéra de Monte-Carlo respectively. The same year he also performed Andrea Chénier at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and even Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in Chile.[1][2]
On August 11, 2010 he wielded his baton during the Eugene Onegin performance at the Royal Opera House.[4] Currently he works as a chief-conductor, a position that he will keep till 2016.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Dmitri Jurowski". Bolshoi Ballet. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Dmitri Jurowski". Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ^ "Dmitri Jurowski". Music World. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ^ "A family that plays together stays together". The Independent. July 30, 2010. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ^ "Musical direction in Tristan und Isolde". Vlaamse Opera. Retrieved December 28, 2013.