Vladimir Jurowski conducts “The seven last words”

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.

Nadzeya Karakulka ist in Maladzechna (Belarus) geboren. Mit sieben Jahren zieht sie mit ihrer Familie nach Minsk um und beginnt dort belarussisches Zymbal zu spielen. Seit 2007 studiert Nadzeya Karakulka Zymbal an der Belarussischen staatlichen Musikakademie bei Professor Evgeni Gladkov. 2012 absolviert sie ihr Bachelorstudium und legte 2013 die Masterprüfung ab. In diesen Jahren Gewinn sie etliche Preise bei nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerben. Jedes Jahr spielt sie Solokonzert an der Musikakademie und 2013 Solokonzert in der Belarussischen Staatlichen Philharmonie.

Während und nach dem Studium nimmt Nadzeya an musikalischen Projekten des „Polnischen Instituts in Minsk“ teil. Außerdem arbeitete sie seit 2008 bis 2016 als Zymballehrerin. 2014 gründet sie mit vier Musikern das Projekt “Amalgama”. 2015 spielt sie mit Musica Antiquea Mediterrania Barockmusik beim Festival „Musiksommer am Zürichsee“,  in Konzerten “Natale in Villa Mozzecane” in Verona. 2016 nimmt sie am Festival „Musik in den Häusern der Stadt“ (Köln) teil. 2017 mit dem Trio Volklassik wird sie Stipendiatin der Werner Richard-Dr.Carl Dörken Stiftung. Nadzeya Karakulka ist Konzerte in Russland, der Ukraine, Litauen, Lettland, Polen, Romänien, Italien, Spanien, der Schweiz, Frankreich und Deutschland aufgetreten. Seit 2021 ist aktive Mitwirkende bei dem Projekt “Music for Belarus”.

Born in 1974 in Mecklenburg, Dr. Klaus Lederer spent his childhood and early youth in Frankfurt an der Oder.

After the end of the GDR, he became involved in left-wing youth associations and, since 1992, in the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).

His studies in law up to his doctorate in law at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University in Berlin, his work in the PDS and for it in local politics filled his 1990s. In December 2005, Klaus Lederer was elected state chair of the LEFT party in Berlin. He remained at the head of the state association until December 2016.

From 2003 to January 2017, Dr Lederer was a member of the Left parliamentary group in the House of Representatives, the parliament of the federal state of Berlin, where he was the spokesperson on legal policy for the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.

Since December 2016, Dr Klaus Lederer has been Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin.