Vladimir Jurowski
Vita.
Born in Moscow, Vladimir Jurowski began his musical education at the Moscow Conservatory and continued his studies at the music academies of Berlin and Dresden. He made his international debut as an opera conductor in 1995 at the Wexford Festival with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night. In the same year, he made his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London with Verdi’s Nabucco.
Since then, he has appeared at major opera houses and festivals worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Opéra National de Paris, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Semperoper in Dresden, and the Salzburg Festival. From 1997 to 2001, he was First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin and subsequently Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival until 2013. From 2007 to 2021, he served as Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and is now its Conductor Emeritus; since 2017, he has also been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB).
In addition, he is Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and, until 2021, was Artistic Director of the George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest as well as of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘E. F. Svetlanov’. He maintains regular collaborations with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and ensemble unitedberlin. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the New York Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia.
At the Bavarian State Opera, he made his debut in the 2015/16 season in an Academy Concert featuring, among other works, Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3; he subsequently conducted a new production of the same composer’s opera The Fiery Angel. In the 2020/21 season, he led the new staging of Der Rosenkavalier. Since 2021, Vladimir Jurowski has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera, where, in addition to a series of Academy Concerts, he has conducted the premieres of Nos / The Nose, The Devils of Loudun, Così fan tutte, War and Peace, Hamlet, Die Fledermaus, The Passenger, Das Rheingold, and Don Giovanni. In 2024, he was appointed Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by His Majesty King Charles III.
Links.
Crew.
Shows.
A Knock on the Roof
The Last Days of Mankind?
Between the River and the Sea
Franz Kafka: MILENA!
