Radio concert with Vladimir Jurowski

Vladimir Jurowski has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) since 2017. In 2023/2024, his concerts, tours and recordings were the highlights of the ‘RSB100’ anniversary season. His current contract in Berlin runs until 2027,
while he has also been General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since 2021.

Vladimir Jurowski, one of the most sought-after conductors of our time, who is celebrated worldwide for his innovative musical interpretations and equally for his courageous artistic commitment, was born in Moscow in 1972 and completed the first part of his music studies at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. He moved to Germany with his family in 1990 and continued his studies at the music academies in Dresden and Berlin. In 1995, he made his debut at the Wexford Festival in Ireland with Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Mainacht’ and in 1996 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with ‘Nabucco’. He was then First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997-2001).

Vladimir Jurowski worked as Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) for fifteen years until 2021 and has since been appointed Conductor Emeritus. In the UK, he was Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera from 2001 to 2013, leading a wide range of highly acclaimed productions. His close connection to British musical life was recognised by King Charles III in spring 2024 when he appointed Vladimir Jurowski an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE). In April 2024, Vladimir Jurowski returned to London as a guest conductor to complete the concert performance cycle of Wagner’s ‘Ring’ with ‘Götterdämmerung’ with the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall.

He was Artistic Director of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra ‘Yevgeny Svetlanov’ of the Russian Federation until 2021 and Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Great Britain, as well as Artistic Director of the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. He has also worked with the unitedberlin ensemble for many years. Vladimir Jurowski has suspended performances in Russia since February 2022. Ukrainian works are and will remain part of his repertoire, as will works by Russian composers.

Vladimir Jurowski has conducted concerts by the most important orchestras in Europe and North America, including the Berlin, Vienna and New York Philharmonics, 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 Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. He is a regular guest at the music festivals in London, Berlin, Dresden, Lucerne, SchleswigHolstein and Grafenegg. Although Vladimir Jurowski is invited as a guest conductor by top orchestras from all over the world, he now concentrates his activities on those geographical areas that he can easily reach with reasonable effort from an ecological point of view.

The joint CD recordings by 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 been honoured many times for his achievements, including numerous international record awards. In 2016, he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Philharmonic Society from the hands of the current 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.

Theatre and film actress, singer. The actress of the “Gogol Centre”, a guest performer of the Mht. them. Chekhov, “Electric Theatre. Stanislavsky”, a participant of the show “The Voice 8”.
She studied at the Shchepkin Theatre School 2006- 2008 the course of N.N. Afonin, graduated from the course of K. Serebrennikov in 2012 and was graduated together with the student formed on the basis of MHT.
“7 Studio”, works in the “Gogol Center”. She graduated from the Faculty of Opera Music. she schools Ippolitova-Ivanova class O. Metalnikova 2020 year. Student of the master’s programme of the UDK Berlin, class Deborah York 2022. teaches at the course of O. Glushkova in GITIS from 2019.

Vocalconsort Berlin is one of the most highly regarded and versatile vocal ensembles in Germany. Founded in 2003 Vocalconsort has no principal conductor, but is working instead on a project-by-project basis with various conductors, but also with long-term artistic partners such as Daniel Reuss, Folkert Uhde and Sasha
Waltz.

Vocalconsort Berlin is versatile in both instrumentation and repertoire, but always stylistically confident and of impressive homogeneity. It has enjoyed success in a wide variety of fields: from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” under René Jacobs, Haydn’s “Four Seasons” under Christopher Moulds, Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place” under Kent Nagano and through to Peter Ruzicka’s “Inseln, Randlos” under the direction of the composer himself. Vocalconsort Berlin supported the opera choir on stage in Barrie Kosky’s production in Schönberg’s “Moses und Aron” under Vladimir Jurowski. The ensemble also plays an important role in many successful scenic productions by Sasha Waltz & Guests, such as “Dido & Aenes” by Purcell, “L’Orfeo” by Monteverdi, “Medea” by Dusapin and “Matsukaze” by Hosokawa.

CD recordings include Handel’s “Ode for Queen Anne” and “Dixit Dominus” with Andreas Scholl and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Handel’s “Athalia” with Nuria Real and the Kammerorchester Basel as well as Bach’s motets under Marcus Creed. Vocalconsort Berlin received the ECHO Klassik in 2013 for its recording of Gesualdo’s second book “Sacrae Cantiones” under James Wood.

In its own projects Vocalconsort Berlin likes to transcend the boundaries of classical genres and disciplines:
“Allegory of Desire” was created in collaboration with the Belgian ensemble Zefiro Torna and the Tunisian singer Ghalia Benali; “From Inside” combined works by Gesualdo and Giacinto Scelsi in a concert staged by Hans-Werner Kroesinger; “Libera Me” combines music by Lobo, Desprez and Gesualdo with contemporary
dance.

In the 2017/18 season, Vocalconsort Berlin made its debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle in a semi-staged production of Janacek’s “Schlauen Füchslein”, which was directed by Peter Sellars. In recent years the collaboration with the Konzerthausorchester under the direction of Iván Fischer and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski has intensified. The Komische Oper Berlin has been a close partner within the last years. On occasion of the 2019 Salzburg Festival Vocalconsort Berlin participated in “Orphée aux Enfers” by Offenbach, a highly acclaimed production of Barrie Kosky with the Vienna Philharmonic under Enrique Mazzola. The close cooperation has continued under the new directorship of Philip Bröking (as e.g. “Orfeo ed Euridice” by Gluck, “Intolleranza 1960” by Nono, both in 2022). In the beginning of 2023, the ensemble worked together with Moritz von Oswald, recording the choir version for his project “Silencio”, an album with purely electronic pieces.

Vocalconsort Berlin maintains a regular presence in the music metropolises and at the major festivals in Europe and overseas. It has worked with conductors such as Marcus Creed, Jos van Immerseel, Ottavio Dantone, Christophe Rousset, Pablo Heras-Casado and Peter Ruzicka.

Kirill Serebrennikov was born in Rostov-on-Don and graduated in physics in 1992. During his studies he began working as a self-taught theatre, opera, film and television director and costume designer.

Salome at the Stuttgart Opera and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Komische Oper Berlin were Kirill Serebrennikov’s first highly acclaimed works to be presented to audiences outside Russia.

Together with Teodor Currentzis, Kirill Serebrennikov worked on Mysterion (after Carl Orff’s De Temporum Fine Comedia) and the benefit project Requiem (by Alexei Sioumak), for which he was also responsible as author. Other opera productions include Falstaff at the Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Le coq d’or at the Bolshoi Moscow and American Lulu at the Vienna Festival.

His interpretation of Cosi fan tutte at Zurich Opera in autumn 2018 was hailed as a sensational success, as was his Nabucco production at Hamburg State Opera in spring 2019 and his Il Barbiere di Siviglia production at Theater Basel in autumn 2019. In March 2020, Kirill Serebrennikov made his debut in Germany with his first drama, directing his adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decamerone at Deutsches Theater Berlin. His interpretation of Parsifal in a new production at the Vienna State Opera in April 2021 was also celebrated by audiences and the media. Further successes were Die Nase at the Bavarian State Opera in autumn 2021 and Der Freischütz at De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam in June 2022.

At the Komische Oper Berlin, he will direct the Mozart Da Ponte cycle for the next three years.

For his film work such as The Student, Kirill Serebrennikov was awarded at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Other films such as The Swallow, Mysteries of the Storm, Playing the Victim, The Diary of a Murderer were screened at the Rome, Locarno and Venice Film Festivals and nominated for the Golden Lion and the Grand Prix of Kinotavr in Sochi.

Kirill Serebrennikov has not only brought numerous classics of Russian literature to the stage, but also works from Shakespeare and Brecht to the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. His production Plastilin by Vasily Sigarev was recorded by arte and invited to numerous European theatre festivals.

In 2011 he founded an experimental workshop project “Platform” in Moscow.

As Artistic Director of Studio Seven, a collective of young artists, he staged A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Carroll’s The Hunting of the Schnark, among others. Studio Seven became part of the Gogol Center’s artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov from 2012 to 2021.

The Gogol Center in Moscow is a cross-genre theatre laboratory and a solitaire in the Russian cultural landscape. His productions here include Dead Souls by Gogol, a musical adaptation by Duncan Sheik based on Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, and Machine Müller, based on Heiner Müller’s Hamlet Machine in collaboration with the Goethe Institute.

Kirill Serebrennikov was awarded the Golden Mask in April 2019 for his production of the ballet Nureyev at the Bolshoi Theatre and for his production of Pushkin’s Little Tragedies at the Gogol Center.