Dmitri Jurowski

Dmitri Mikhailovich Jurowski (; born 6 November 1979) is a German conductor and the grandson of composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski.

Early life and education Jurowski was born in Moscow, into a Jewish family with several generations of musicians. At the age of six he began learning cello at the Moscow Conservatory and then moved with his family to Berlin, where he attended the Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. He continued his cello studies at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, and in April 2003 began attending conducting lessons at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. Soon afterwards, he became an assistant conductor for a production of Prokofiev's Boris Godunov which he conducted along with his father, Mikhail Jurowski, for the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Career

Assistant conductor In September 2004, he was assistant conductor of Parsifal at the Genoan Teatro Carlo Felice under the guidance of Harry Kupfer and then conducted Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges with Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana. The opera toured 23 theatres in Northern Italy; as a result of its success since after it he was invited to the Martina Franca Festival. In 2005 he performed and recorded, for the Dynamic label, Luigi Cherubini's Lo Sposo di tre e il Marito di Nessuna and Cherubini's Requiem. Later, with the Munich Radio Orchestra, he conducted Rimsky-Korsakov's operas Mozart and Salieri and The Golden Cockerel followed by Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and another production of Love for Three Oranges. and in fall 2008 was invited to perform Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden. During the same year he also performed both Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Strauss's Die Fledermaus, with the Dresden Philharmonic and the Liege Opera of Belgium. He appeared with Lisbon's Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa, the New Israeli Opera and even the Mikhaylovsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg. On 1 January 2011 he became a Chief Conductor of the Vlaamse Opera

Career at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre From 2015 to 2021 he was the Musical Director and Principal Conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, and since 2021 he has been the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of this theatre.