Vladimir Jurowski

Vladimir Jurowski, born in Moscow, began his musical education at the Moscow Conservatory and continued his studies at the music academies in 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 debuted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London with Nabucco. Since then, he has appeared as a guest conductor at major venues such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Bavarian State Opera, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Semperoper in Dresden, and the Salzburg Festival.

From 1997 to 2001, he served as First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin and subsequently as Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival until 2013. From 2007 to 2021, he was Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has since held the title of Conductor Emeritus. Since 2017, he has served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Additionally, he is Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and served until 2021 as Artistic Director of both the George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "E. F. Svetlanov."

He maintains close collaborations with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and ensemble unitedberlin. As a guest conductor, he has led performances with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the New York Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia.

Since 2021, he has been the General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. In 2024, he was appointed Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by King Charles III.