Dmitri Jurowski was born in Moscow in 1979 and comes from the Jurowski family of conductors. He began his training as a cellist at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, continued it in Berlin and Rostock after the family moved, and then studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He has conducted opera and concert since 2005. From 2011 to 2016 he was general music director of the Flemish Opera Antwerp/Ghent, and from 2015 to 2022 chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. He has conducted more than a hundred opera productions, including at the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Opéra Bastille, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The focal points of his repertoire are Wagner, Strauss, Zemlinsky, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Schostakowitsch and Prokofiev. In 2017 hd-klassik released the recording Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal LIVE (Vol. 1) under his direction.
Dmitri Jurowski
Conductor
