Tugan Taimurazovich Sokhiev (Tugan Sokhiev).

Tugan Sokhiev

Tugan Sokhiev was born in 1977 in Vladikavkaz. In 1996 he graduated from the Vladikavkaz College of Music (now named after Valery Gergiev), in 2001 he graduated from the Faculty of Opera and Symphony Conducting of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (class of professors Ilya Musin and Yuri Temirkanov). Conducted the orchestras of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Mariinsky Theater at concerts in memory of Ilya Musin (1999-2000). In 1999 he was awarded the XNUMXnd prize at the XNUMXrd Prokofiev International Conducting Competition in St. Petersburg, sharing it with Alexander Sladkovsky (the XNUMXst prize was not awarded).

In 2000, the conductor began collaborating with the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre. In December 2001, he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theater in the concert program Through the Pages of Rossini’s Operas. Since 2005 he has been a permanent conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre. Under his leadership, premieres of productions of the operas Carmen, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Journey to Reims took place. People’s Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. At present he is the artistic director of the National Orchestra of the Capitole of Toulouse, who inherited this post after the illustrious maestro Michel Plasson.

In 2002, Tugan Sokhiev made his debut on the stage of the Welsh National Opera House (“La Boheme”), and in 2003 – on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Theater (“Eugene Onegin”). In the same year, he made his first appearance with the London Philharmonic, performing Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony. The concert was highly appreciated by critics and became the beginning of Tugan Sokhiev’s close cooperation with this group. In 2004, the conductor brought the opera The Love for Three Oranges to the festival in Aix-en-Provence, which was later repeated in Luxembourg and at the Real Madrid Theater, and in 2006 at the Houston Grand Opera he presented the opera Boris Godunov”, which was also a great success. In 2009, the conductor made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which received rave reviews from critics. In recent concert and theater seasons, Tugan Sokhiev conducted at the Mariinsky Theater the operas The Golden Cockerel, Iolanthe, Samson and Delilah, Fiery Angel and Carmen, as well as The Queen of Spades and Iolanthe at the Capitol Theater Toulouse.

At the same time, the conductor actively tours in Western Europe, acting as a guest conductor in a number of major orchestras. Their list is so impressive that even a simple listing will require a lot of ink and paper: it contains almost all the leading European orchestras. Recently, Tugan Sokhiev made his debut with the Rotterdam and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, having received the definition of “miracle conductor” from criticism. Among his recent engagements are also successful debuts with the Spanish National Orchestra, the RAI Orchestra of Turin and a series of philharmonic concerts at Milan’s La Scala Theatre. In addition, Tugan Sokhiev performs as a guest conductor with the Rome Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, the Japanese NHK Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. Among the conductor’s plans for the next seasons are The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, projects with the Mariinsky Theater, and with the team he leads – studio recordings, tours and several opera productions at the Capitole Theater of Toulouse.

In 2010, Sokhiev became Principal Conductor of the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin.

January 20, 2014 announced the chief conductor and musical director of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia.