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Vladimir Jurowski has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2017. He has meanwhile extended his contract until 2027. In parallel, he has been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2021.

After receiving training at the Moscow Conservatory The conductor, pianist and musicologist Vladimir Jurowski emigrated to Germany in 1990. Here he continued his studies at the music conservatories in Dresden and Berlin.  In 1995 he made his international debut at the British Wexford Festival with Rimski-Korsakov’s Mainacht and in the same year at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Nabucco. Subsequently he was, among other things, First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997- 2001) and Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001-2013). In 2003 Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has been its Principal Conductor since 2007 until 2021. He was also Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra Yevgeny Svetlanov of the Russian Federation until 2021, Artistic Director of the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. He works regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the ensemble unitedberlin.

Vladimir Jurowski has conducted the major orchestras of 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 Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

He is a recurring guest conductor in in London, Berlin, Dresden, Luzern, Schleswig-Holstein und Grafenegg as well as at the Rostopowitsch-Festival. Although Vladimir Jurowski is invited as a guest conductor by top orchestras from all over the world, in future he would like to concentrate his activities on that geographical area which is acceptable to him from an ecological point of view.

The 2024/25 season sees Alina perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, City of Birmingham Symphony and Swedish Chamber Orchestra, working with Vladimir Jurowski, Hannu Lintu, Anja Bihlmaier, Michael Sanderling, Iván Fischer and Krzysztof Urbański. She also continues her partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien for recital tours of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan.

Highlights of the previous two seasons have included concerts with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with conductors including Robin Ticciati, Ryan Bancroft, Maxim Emelyanychev and Daniel Harding. She was also artist-in-residence with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and toured Europe with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Kammerorchester Basel.

Alina regularly appears at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Metropolitan Theatre and at the Royal Albert Hall where she performed Bach’s Sonatas and Partita as part of the BBC Proms. She is a founding member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – one of the world’s most sought-after period ensembles.