Tugan Taimurazovich Sokhiev (Osset. Sokhity Taimurazy firt Tugan , born October 21, 1977 , Vladikavkaz ) - Russian conductor . Chief conductor and musical director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
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| Date of Birth | October 21, 1977 (41 years old) | ||
| Place of Birth | Vladikavkaz , North Ossetia | ||
| A country |  Russia | ||
| Professions | conductor | ||
| Genres | classical music | ||
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People's Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania [ specify ] .
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Biography
Born on October 21, 1977 in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz ). At the age of seven, he entered a music school in the class of Ossetian harmonics in the class of A. A. Gazatseva, and then, at the age of seventeen, he entered the Vladikavkaz musical school at the conducting department in the class of A. A. Briskin . In 2001 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where he studied in the classes of symphonic conducting of I. A. Musin and Yu. Kh. Temirkanov.
First performed as an opera conductor in Iceland ( Bohemia by J. Puccini) [ specify ] . As a symphonic conductor he made his debut in 2000 in St. Petersburg with the orchestra "St. Petersburg Camerata". In 2001, he was invited to the position of musical director of the Welsh National Opera : in 2003 he took office, but in 2004 was forced to leave the theater due to disagreements with the musicians. Since 2008 - music director of the National Capitol Toulouse Orchestra . In 2012-16. chief conductor of the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin . Since 2014, he has been the chief conductor and musical director of the Bolshoi Theater (Moscow), where he directed productions of the operas Orleans Maiden by P. I. Tchaikovsky (2014), Carmen by J. Bizet (?), And Katerina Izmailova , D. D. Shostakovich (2016), conducted many other performances.
Participant of international festivals: operas in Aix-en-Provence (since 2004) and in Orange (2011), "Mozart Week" in Salzburg (2016).
Selected Discography
- Mussorgsky : “ Pictures from the exhibition ”
Tchaikovsky : Symphony No. 4
Capitol Toulouse National Orchestra
2006, Naïve: B000H7I4XG - Prokofiev : “ Peter and the Wolf ”
Capitol Toulouse National Orchestra
2007, Naïve: B000VAVTLS - Prokofiev : “ Love for three oranges ”
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
2004, Bel Air Classiques: BAC024
Awards and titles
- Winner of the second prize of the III International Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St. Petersburg (1999)
- People's Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
- Cavalier of the Order of Merit (France) (2013)
- The medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, I degree (August 21, 2018) - for a great contribution to the development of national culture, art, the media and many years of fruitful activity [1] .