Playbill:
- 20 June
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Moscow International House of Music/ Svetlanov Hall/ 19.00
Closing of the Season
S. Prokofiev. Suite from opera The Love of Three Oranges
P. Tchaikovsky. Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra
F. Mendelssohn. Suite from music to W. Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream
P. Dukas. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
P. Tchaikovsky. Italian Capriccio
Soloist – Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello
Conductor – Michail Jurowski
Michail Jurowski was born in Moscow in 1945, in the family of the composer Vladimir Jurowski. Jurowski was educated at the Moscow Conservatoire, where he studied conducting under Leo Ginsburg and music science under Alexei Kandinsky. During his studies he assisted Gennadi Rozhdestvensky at the National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Moscow. M. Jurowski conducted the Music Theatre of Stanislavski and Nemirovitch-Dantchenko in Moscow, and frequently conducted performances at the Bolshoi Theatre. From 1978, Jurowski was regular guest conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin. In 1989 he left the USSR with his family and was offered a permanent post with the Dresden Semperoper. Other titled positions have included: general Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of Leipzig Opera and Chief Conductor of WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. He is currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, a position he has held since 2003.
As a guest conductor Michail Jurowski has led the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutche Oper Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Stavanger Symphonic Orchestras and has worked with the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and in Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia and Vienna among others. In addition he works with the Norrköpping Symphony Orchestra at least twice a year. Recent Opera and Ballet highlights have included Götterdämmerung in Dortmund, Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty at the Norske Opera in Oslo, Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliarias, as well as a new production of Respighi's Marie Victoir , the revival of Un Ballo in Maschera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and a hugely successful new production of Prokofiev's The love of three oranges in June 2011 at the Grand Theatre in Geneva with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. His opera repertoire includes Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Weber, Wagner, Smetana, R. Strauss and Britten, as well as Russian composers Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. In 2001 Jurowski received a “Grammy” nomination for 3 CD productions of “Orchestral Music by Rimsky-Korsakov” with the RSB Orchestra.
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello. Prize winner of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition (I Prize, 2011), Young Talents International Competition (I Prize and nine special prizes, New York, 2008), International A. Johansen Competition (I Prize, Washington, 2006), International A. Khachaturian Competition (I Prize and Gold Medal, Armenia, 2006), International Gyeongnam Competition (II Prize, South Korea, 2006). At present moment – student of Moscow State Conservatory named after P. Tchaikovsky (class of A. Seleznev) and New England Conservatory, Boston (tutor L. Lesser).