One of today’s most sought-after and dynamic conductors,
acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic
commitment, Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow, and completed the first part
of his musical studies at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990
he relocated with his family to Germany, continuing his studies at the
Musikhochschule of Dresden and Berlin, studying conducting with Rolf Reuter and
vocal coaching with Semion Skigin. In 1995 he made his international debut at
the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, and the
same year saw his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Nabucco.
Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003, becoming the orchestra's Principal Conductor in
September 2007. He also holds the titles of Principal Artist of the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment and Artistic Director of the Russian State Academic
Symphony Orchestra. He has also held the positions of First Kapellmeister of
the Komische Oper Berlin (1997-2001), Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro
Comunale di Bologna (2000-2003), Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian
National Orchestra (2005-2009) and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival
Opera (2001-2013). Vladimir Jurowski has appeared on the podium with many of
the world's leading orchestras in both Europe and North America, including the
Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester
Zurich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and the Staatskapelle Dresden. Highlights
of the 2013/14 season and beyond include his debuts with the New York
Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and San Francisco Symphony, tours
with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and return
visits to the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the
Rundfunk Sinfonie-orchester Berlin, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia. Jurowski made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York in 1999
with Rigoletto, and has since returned for Jenufa, The Queen of
Spades and Hansel und Gretel. He has conducted Parsifal
and Wozzeck at the Welsh National Opera, War and Peace at the
Opera National de Paris, Eugene Onegin at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Ruslan
and Ludmila at the Bolshoi Theatre, and Iolanta and Der
Teufel von Loudon at the Dresden Semperoper, as well as Die
Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Otello, Macbeth, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Die
Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Don Giovanni, The Rake’s Progress, The Cunning
Little Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos and Peter Eötvös’ Love and Other Demons
at Glyndebourne Opera. In 2013 he returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Die
Frau ohne Schatten, and future engagements include Moses und Aron
at the Komische Oper Berlin and The Fiery Angel at the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich. Jurowski’s discography includes the first ever recording
of the cantata Exile by Giya Kancheli for ECM, Meyerbeer’s L’etoile du Nord
for Marco Polo, Massenet’s Werther for BMG, and a series of
records for PentaTone with the Russian National Orchestra, including
Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3 and Stravinsky's Divertimento from Le
baiser de la fée, Shostakovich Symphonies No 1 & 6, Prokofiev
Symphony No 5, and Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet Incidental Music. The
London Philharmonic Orchestra has released a wide selection of his live recordings
on their LPO Live label, including Brahms Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2,
Mahler Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances,
Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 1, 4, 5, 6 and Manfred, and works by Turnage,
Holst, Britten, Shostakovich, Honegger and Haydn. His tenure as Music Director
at Glyndebourne has been documented in CD releases of La Cenerentola, Tristan
und Isolde and Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery, and DVD
releases of his performances of La Cenerentola, Gianni Schicchi, Die Fledermaus,
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Don Giovanni, and Rachmaninov’s The
Miserly Knight, and other DVD releases include Hansel und Gretel
from the Metropolitan Opera New York, his first concert as London Philharmonic
Orchestra’s principal conductor featuring works by Wagner, Berg and Mahler, and
DVDs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Beethoven symphonies 4 and
7) and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Strauss and Ravel), all released by
Medici Arts.