Gergiev Mariinsky biography

BYOGRAPHY SIMILAR PERSONS News BYOGRAPHY The famous world -famous conductor Valery Gergiev continues to work for the benefit of the Mariinsky Theater. During his career, he reached truly sky -high heights, but in the year he was in disgrace simply because the Russian. However, the maestro, unlike colleagues, does not speak out, but continues to do his own business. Valery Gergiev: childhood, parents, nationality Valery Abisalovich Gergiev was born on May 2 in Moscow in an Ossetian family, his height - cm, weight - 68 kg.

Father Abisal Zaurbekovich was a battalion commander during the Great Patriotic War, her mother Tamara Timofeevna was engaged in raising children. In addition to the son, two daughters grew in the family: Larisa, who became the famous pianist, and Svetlana. Valeria was named in honor of the famous test pilot Valery Chkalov. The boy’s childhood passed in the city of Ordzhonikidze now - Vladikavkaz.

From the age of seven, Valery began training at the piano and conducting class and conducting music school, although he was more interested in football. Nevertheless, love for music prevailed, and soon the boy became the best student. In addition, Valery successfully coped with mathematics in a comprehensive school, took part in the Olympiads. Valery Gergiev in his youth.

Photo: Having graduated from school, Valery Gergiev moved to Leningrad, entering the Leningrad Conservatory in the year of conducting Ilya Musin. In the year, Student Gergiev defeated the prestigious international competition of conductor Herbert von Karayan in Berlin and in the same year won the All -Union Competition of Conductors in Moscow. Valery Gergiev: Having the beginning of his career, Gergiev was admitted to the Kirov Theater in the year as assistant to the chief director Yuri Temirkanov.

And the next year he first stood behind the remote control, carrying out Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace”.

Photo: Global Look Press in the year Gergiev headed the State Symphony Orchestra of Armenia, and in the year he became the chief conductor of the Mariinsky Theater. With his arrival, the tradition of conducting thematic festivals, dedicated to the anniversaries of legendary composers, appeared. For example, a festival dedicated to the summer of Mosorgsky was held in the year, at the m-the anniversary of Peter Tchaikovsky, at M-the anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev, in the M-the anniversary of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

At such events, not only the famous scores sounded, but also rare or previously unknown works. Valery Gergiev: Mariinsky Theater in the years the theater returned its historical name - Mariinsky. Gergiev and the orchestra began to actively tour around the world at the invitation of an American concert agency. About the Mariinsky Theater learned the whole world.

Valery Gergiev conducts. Photo: Global Look Press in the year Gergiev first held the festival "Stars of the White Nights", which became annual, on which foreign performers performed along with domestic stars. From the year, Gergiev was the main invited conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. The work schedule of the conductor, it seems, accepted the impossible: on the day of 1-3 concerts, constant flights, tour and the leadership of the theater.

In the year, Gergiev founded the Academy of young singers, it was headed by Larisa Gergieva. This was the opportunity to prove oneself for many talented performers. It was graduated by Anna Netrebko, famous for the opera Diva today. The Mariinsky Theater under the command of Valery Gergieva began to give out the premiere to a dozen during the season, the orchestra went to a new level.

Not only new opera and ballet scores were mastered, but also an extensive symphonic repertoire: all the symphony of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and many other composers. Valery Gergiev at the Easter Festival. Photo: Global Look Press among Gergiev’s projects implemented in the Mariinsky Theater-the organization of media broadcasting, the conduct of the Online broadcasts of concerts, the creation of a recording studio.

In the year, the Mariinsky brand was created, under which several dozen audio and video discs with symphonies and piano concerts of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, the operas of Wagner, Massenet, Donitsetti and others, the recordings of Prokofiev “Romeo and Juliet” and “Cinderella” and the Opera player ”were created. Valery Gergiev: Critics and colleagues characterize the performing skills of Gergiev as expressive and bright, and reading the classics is original.

Valery Gergiev in the Kremlin Palace. Photo: Global Look Press did not ignore Sergei Prokofiev with all the symphonies, all piano and violin concerts, a series of operas, Maurice Rael, Sergey Rachmaninov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky, Petra Tchaikovsky all the symphony, with the exception of Manfred and the reconstructed seventh, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets, all ballets A number of operas and symphonic works, Dmitry Shostakovich all concerts, all symphonies, opera “Nose”, Rodion Shchedrin a number of symphonic works and operas, the premieres of some of them were under the control of Gergiev.

In the year, Gergiev became the chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the year he headed the Faculty of Arts of St. Petersburg State University.In the year he left the London institution, taking a similar position in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Valery Gergiev in Italy. Photo: Social networks with the Mariinsky Theater orchestra Gergiev participated in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in the year, as well as at the opening and closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In the year, Gergiev for the performance of “symphonic dances” by Sergei Rachmaninov with the London Orchestra was nominated for the musical “Oscar” - the Grammy Award. Valery Gergiev in Syria. Photo: Global Look Press in May, the Mariinsky Theater, under the direction of Valery Gergiev, performed in the amphitheater Palmyra in Syria, liberated by the army of the Syria government with the support of the Russian military.

This is not the first humanitarian concert of the conductor: in the year he organized a cycle of performances “Beslan. In the name of life ”after terrible events in Ossetia. In the year, with the wave of a stick of Gergiev, music sounded in the dilapidated Tskhinval in memory of the dead. Valery Gergiev: Awards for his musical and social activities Valery Gergieva were marked by three state prizes of the Russian Federation,, the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation and the Hero of Labor, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, high state awards of Armenia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, France, Japan.

Valery Gergiev with Vladimir Putin on awarding. She advised her son not to exchange and choose her wife at once and for life. However, she did not save: in the years, the conductor had an affair with philologist Elena Ostovich, as a result of which the daughter of Natalia was born in the year. She became a pianist and music teacher. Natalia Gergieva, the eldest daughter of Valery Gergieva.

Photo: social networks but Valery Gergiev married another. He met her, having already built his career and gaining world fame. This happened in the year at the Petropavlovskiy Assembly contest in St. Petersburg. The singer Natalya Dzebisova conquered not only the jury, but also the maestro with her talent. Valery Gergiev with his wife Natalia and children. Photo: The social networks turned out to have graduated from the Gergieva music school in Vladikavkaz.

The performer was 28 years younger than the conductor, but this did not become an obstacle to their novel. The couple hid relations, and the secret became clear only when the wedding in the Maestro homeland took place in the year. In the year, the firstborn appeared in the family - the boy Abisal. He graduated from the conservatory in St. Petersburg, continued training at the Boston Conservatory of New England.

The second son, Valery, was born in the year. And in the year the family became large: the daughter of Tamara was born. Abisal Gergiev, the eldest son of Valery Gergiev. He does not intervene in politics in the year, although the whole world public was playing at him after the February events. For this, the contracts were broken with him and many leading concert halls in Europe were canceled, the Munich Philharmonic Theater dismissed him from his post.

In October, the maestro was expelled from the Swedish Royal Music Academy due to the refusal to condemn events in Ukraine. In this prestigious Scandinavian organization, the Russian had membership from a year. However, this did not make the maestro be distracted from his affairs-he still remains silent. Similar Persons.