Vladimir Jurowski has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2017. He has since extended his contract until 2027. In parallel, he has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2021.
The conductor Vladimir Jurowski was trained first at the music school and later at the conservatory music school in Moscow. In 1990 he came to Germany, where he continued his studies at the conservatories in Dresden and Berlin. In 1995 he made his debut at the Irish Wexford Festival with Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mainacht" and in 1996 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with "Nabucco". His subsequent positions include First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997-2001) and Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001-2013).
In 2003 Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and was its Principal Conductor from 2007 to 2021. He was also Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Yevgeny Svetlanov" of the Russian Federation and Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the UK until 2021, and Artistic Director of the George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest.
He works regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Ensemble unitedberlin. Vladimir Jurowski has conducted concerts by the most important orchestras in Europe and North America, including the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. He appears regularly at music festivals in London, Berlin, Dresden, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein and Grafenegg. Although Vladimir Jurowski is invited as a guest conductor by top orchestras from all over the world, he would like to concentrate his activities in the future on the geographical area that is acceptable to him from an ecological point of view.
Vladimir Jurowski has suspended performances in Russia since February 2022. Ukrainian works are and remain part of his repertoire, as are the works of Russian composers. The joint CD recordings of Vladimir Jurowski and the RSB began in 2015 with Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 3, followed by works by Britten, Hindemith, Strauss, Mahler and again Schnittke. Vladimir Jurowski has received many awards for his achievements, including numerous international recording prizes. In 2016, he received an Honorary Doctorate of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Conductor of the Year from the hands of the present King Charles III. In 2020, Vladimir Jurowski's work as Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival was honoured by the Romanian President with the Order of Cultural Merit.
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