VLADIMIR JUROWSKI

"Vladimir Jurowski more, medium than conductor, produces ever more faultlessly gorgeous, languid sounds."
Robert Thicknesse, The Times

"This was a riveting performance, one of those rare times when a familiar work is rendered new to one's ears. From the incredibly soft and deliberate opening to the charged second movement to the aching third and powerful finale, it was potent direction, and the musicians responded in kind."
Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow, but moved in 1990 with his family to Germany, where he completed his musical studies at the High Schools of Music in Dresden and Berlin. In 1995, he made a highly successful debut at the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov's May Night, which launched his international career. Since then he has been a guest at some of the world's leading opera houses, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opèra Bastille de Paris, Welsh National Opera, Dresden Opera, Komische Opera Berlin and Metropolitan Opera, New York.

In January 2001, Vladimir Jurowski took up the position as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and in early 2003 was also appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Last year, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra.

Vladimir Jurowski has made highly successful debuts with a number of the world's leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Rotterdam and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras in Europe; and in the U.S. with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Future engagements include debuts with such orchestras as Dresden Staatskapelle and the Royal Concertgebouw, as well as return visits to Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome. Recent operatic engagements have taken him to the Bastille Opera for the production of The War and Peace, Welsh National Opera for a successful new production of Wozzeck. He conducted performances of Die Fledermaus and a new production of Prokofiev's Betrothal in the Monastery at this year's Glyndebourne Festival Opera. It was recently announced that Jurowski will become Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a position that commences in September 2007.