Michail Vladimirovich Jurowski was a Russian conductor who worked internationally, based in Germany for most of his career.
23 Facts About Michail Jurowski
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Michail Jurowski was particularly interested in the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, in concerts and recordings.
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Michail Jurowski first worked in Moscow, but was from 1978 a regular guest conductor at the Komische Oper Berlin, then in East Berlin.
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Michail Jurowski was music director of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie from 1992, and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock from 1999, followed by positions with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Rundfunkorchester Koln.
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Michail Jurowski worked as a guest worldwide, including Scandinavia and Argentina.
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Michail Jurowski's recordings include the first recordings of Dmitri Shostakovich's unfinished opera The Gamblers after Nikolai Gogol, completed by Krzysztof Meyer in 1981, and of Anton Rubinstein's Moses.
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Michail Jurowski was instrumental in founding the International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch.
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Michail Jurowski studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg and Alexey Kandinsky.
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Michail Jurowski later worked at the Stanislavski Theatre and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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Michail Jurowski was assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Michail Jurowski's positions were not adequate to his talent, due to the antisemitism of the time.
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From 1992 to 1998, Michail Jurowski was music director and principal conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie based in Herford.
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Michail Jurowski conducted in 1995 the premiere recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's unfinished opera The Gamblers after Nikolai Gogol, completed by Krzysztof Meyer in 1981, sung in Russian by soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
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Michail Jurowski was first guest conductor for the Tonkunstler Orchestra in Lower Austria.
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Michail Jurowski was active in Europe, including Moscow again and La Scala in Milan, and beyond, such as with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic in the Teatro Colon.
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Michail Jurowski conducted at the Oper Frankfurt, at the Paris Opera, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, among other.
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Michail Jurowski conducted Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel at the Bavarian State Opera in 2017.
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Michail Jurowski conducted the first performance and recording of Anton Rubinstein's opera Moses with the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra in Warsaw in 2017.
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Michail Jurowski was instrumental in founding the International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch in 2010.
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In 2015, Michail Jurowski published an autobiography, covering as a gifted storyteller his meetings with great musicians.
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Michail Jurowski made several first recordings, some in series such as orchestral works by Berthold Goldschmidt, and symphonies by Ture Rangstrom and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger.
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Michail Jurowski recorded rarely performed music such as Franz Lehar's opera Tatjana, Serge Prokofiev ballet Auf dem Dnjepr, Giacomo Meyerbeer's incidental music to Struensee, and works by Aram Khachaturian, Ottorino Respighi and Franz von Suppe.
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Michail Jurowski conducted Shostakvich's film scores, orchestral songs, and his cantata Stenka Rasin.