Vladimir Jurowski

A graduate of the great Russian school of conductors, Vladimir Jurowski settled in Germany, where he conducted the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow on April 4, 1972, in what was then the Soviet Union, he followed in the footsteps of his ancestors, notably his father Mikhail Jurowski (1945-2022), who taught him the basics of conducting, before entering the Moscow Conservatory. Assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the USSR Radio Orchestra, he followed his family to the German Democratic Republic and continued his training in Dresden with Colin Davis, then at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Rolf Reuter. After his debut at the Wexford Festival in Ireland in 1995, he conducted Nabucco at London's Covent Garden, The Queen of Spades at the Paris Opera in 1999, then Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2001, he was appointed Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival, where he remained until 2013. He is also a regular guest at the Paris Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, where he became principal conductor from 2007 to 2021, succeeding Kurt Masur and making a series of live recordings under the orchestra's label. In 2007, he conducted Hélène Grimaud in Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle. This fervent defender of Russian music, in the symphonies or ballets of Tchaikovsky as in the works of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev or Shostakovich, took over from the great conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov as conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation in 2011, for a decade. In 2017, he became the principal conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in 2021, he took over as simultaneous music director of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and the Bayerische Staatsoper. In February 2024, he received the title of Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) from King Charles III.

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