Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow and began his musical training at the Moscow Conservatory, later studying in Berlin and Dresden. He made his international debut as an opera conductor with Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night at the 1995 Wexford Festival. Later that same season he appeared for the first time at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducting Verdi’s Nabucco. Since then he has appeared, inter alia, at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the Dresden State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. Between 1997 and 2001 he was principal conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin and from 2001 to 2013 was music director of the Glyndebourne Festival. Between 2007 and 2021 he was principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, where he retains the title of conductor emeritus. Since 2017 he has also been principal conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and is additionally principal artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Until 2021 he was also the artistic director of both the International George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and the Yevgeny Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. He works regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the ensemble unitedberlin. As a guest conductor he has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2015, conducting an Academy Concert whose programme included Prokofiev’s Third Symphony, before going on to conduct a new production of the same composer’s opera The Fiery Angel in the November of that year. He also conducted a new production of Der Rosenkavalier during the 2020/21 season. Since 2021 Vladimir Jurowski has been the general music director of the Bayerische Staatsoper.