Michail Jurowski

While conductor Michail Jurowski has led many acclaimed performances in a multitude of concert and operatic repertory throughout his profession, he is becoming most widely known for his interpretations of less popular music, particular rarely encountered functions by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He provides mined the byways of Prokofiev’s significant result with recordings from the incidental ratings to Egyptian Evenings, Hamlet, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, the film rating Queen of Spades, and ballet Sur le Borysthene. And Jurowski provides ventured into similarly obscure Shostakovich territory: the oratorio Melody from the Forests; the cantata SUNLIGHT Shines on Our Motherland; music in the films Alone, Nov Berlin, and Maxim; music in the unfinished opera The Bettors; and far else. Jurowski in addition has championed the symphonies and orchestral music of Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. He provides led main orchestras in the previous Soviet Union and pursuing his 1990 immigration to Germany, provides held prestigious content there and provides intensely freelanced in Scandinavia, both in opera and symphonic music. Jurowski provides produced over 60 recordings, mainly for Melodiya, CPO, and Capriccio. Michail Jurowski was created in Moscow on Dec 25, 1945. His dad was composer Vladimir Jurowski, a good friend of Shostakovich, whom youthful Michail fulfilled and performed with. Michail examined music on the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Ginzburg and Alexei Kandinsky. From his pupil days Jurowski offered for 24 years as an helper to Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky on the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. During this time period Jurowski regularly executed on the Moscow-based Music Movie theater of Stanislavski and Nemirovitch-Dantchenko. Also before Jurowski officially resettled along with his family members in Berlin in 1990, he previously become energetic on the music picture in Germany: from 1989-1996 he offered as long lasting conductor from the Semperoper Dresden. In 1992 he was appointed music movie director from the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, Herford, keeping the post until 1998. In the brand new century Jurowski regularly carried out the Deutsche Oper Berlin and for just two months (1999-2001) was main conductor in the Leipzig Opera. In 2006 Jurowski was appointed main conductor from the Cologne-based WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra. The majority of his recordings in the western have already been with this ensemble as well as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Among Jurowski’s recordings may be the 2005 Compact disc of Prokofiev’s Eugene Onegin and Queen of Spades, using the Berlin RSO. Jurowski’s boy, Vladimir, acts as primary conductor from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.