Teodor Currentzis

Teodor Currentzis
Currentzis in Marxloh, Duisburg, 2015
Born	(1972-02-24) February 24, 1972 Athens, Greece
Occupation	Conductor composer actor recording artist
Style	Classical music
Website	www.teodor-currentzis.com

Teodor Currentzis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής; Russian: Теодор Курентзис; born February 24, 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor.

Biography

Currentzis was born in Athens, and at the age of 4 began to take piano lessons, after which, at the age 7, he began violin lessons. He entered the National Conservatory, Athens at the age of 12, in the violin department. In 1987, aged 15, he commenced composition studies under Professor George Hadjinikos, and then in 1989 under Professor B. Shreck,^[1] From 1994 till 1999 Currentzis studied conducting in the St. Petersburg State Conservatory under the legendary professor Ilya Musin - the teacher of conductors Gergiev, Temirkanov, Bychkov and many others

Career

From 2004 to 2010 Currentzis served as principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, the largest opera theatre in the northern part of Russia, where he founded the Musica Aeterna Ensemble and the New Siberian Singers Chamber Choir. Since February 2011 Currentzis has been music director of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.^[2]

In 2006, he conducted young opera stars, including Alexey Kudrya, in concert performances in Moscow and Novosibirsk to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

In 2009 he acted in Ilya Khrzhanovsky's film Dau ( Russian: Дау ) based on the biography of Lev Landau, who was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Awards

Currentzis has won the National Theatre Award Golden Mask three times:

2007: Special Awards of the Musical Theatre Jury for Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella.^[3]
2008: Special Award of the Musical Theatre Jury For Impressive Achievements in Musical Authenticity in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.^[4]
2011: Best Director of an Opera for Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Bolshoi Theater.^[5]
2012: Best Director of an Opera for Così fan tutte
2012: Best Conductor of a ballet for Sergei Prokofiev's The Jester^[6]

Works

2004/05 – Giuseppe Verdi's Aida directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.
2005/06 – concert performance and CD record of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
2006/07 – Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro directed by Tatjana Gürbaca.
2006/07 – Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk directed by Henrich Baranovsky.
2007 – Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella.
2008/09 – Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre and Opéra Bastille.
2009/10 – Alban Berg's Wozzeck directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Bolshoi Theatre.
2009/10 – Mozart's Don Giovanni directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Bolshoi Theatre and Aix-en-Provence Festival.
2010 – Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger at the Bregenzer Festspiele directed by David Pountney.
2010 – Alexei Siumak's The Requiem in the Moscow Art Theatre.^[7]
2011 – Mozart's Così fan tutte in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.
2012 – Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Stravinsky's Persephone in the Teatro Real, Madrid.
2012 – Verdi's Macbeth in the Bavarian State Opera, Munich.
2012 – Sergei Prokofiev's The Jester.^[8]
2013 – Purcell's The Indian Queen in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre with coproduction of Teatro Real and English National Opera.
2014 – Dmitry Kurlyandsky's Nosferatu in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.^[9]
2014 – Mozart's Don Giovanni in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.^[10]

Discography

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Alpha, 2008)
Mozart: Requiem (Alpha, 2011)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 (Alpha, 2011)
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos; Sonata for Violin and Piano (Harmonia Mundi, 2012)
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Sony Classical, 2014)
Rameau: The Sound of Light (Sony Classical, 2014)
Mozart: Così fan tutte (Sony Classical, 2014)
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (Sony Classical, 2015)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Stravinsky: Les Noces (Sony Classical, 2016)
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Sony Classical, 2016)

Filmography

Iolanta/Perséphone (Teatro Real, 2012)
Purcell: The Indian Queen (Sony Classical, 2015)

References

External links

Official site

Preceded by Alexey Liudmilin	Principal Conductor, Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre 2004-2011	Succeeded by Ainars Rubikis
Preceded by Georgy Isaakyan	Music Director, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre 2011- present	Succeeded by

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