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Tugan Sokhiev

Introduction

Tugan Sokhiev is Music Director of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (ONCT) and became Music Director of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) at the start of the 2012/13 season.  

Plans for this season include debuts with the Chicago Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras and returns to Vienna Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic. He will also conduct two contrasting programmes with the Philharmonia Orchestra - to which he returns each season - including the RPS 200th anniversary celebration concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Opera includes his return to Vienna State Opera for Boris Godunov and a Stravinsky ballet project at Theatre du Capitole. Highlights with titled orchestras include his inaugural concert at the Berlin Musikfest with DSO Berlin and European and Asian touring with ONCT. 

Please contact Laura Baker for a current biography.

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Halle aux Grains, Toulouse

Programme

BEETHOVEN Triple concerto for piano, violin & cello, op.56
TCHAIKOVSKI Manfred, op. 58 

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Tugan Sokhiev

G. Laurenceau
A. Gastinel
B. Chamayou

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ONCT, Music Director

Tugan Sokhiev is Music Director of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (ONCT), where he served as Principal Guest
Conductor for three seasons prior to becoming its Music Director in 2008. During his collaborations with Toulouse he has conducted many critically-acclaimed concerts - his performance in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with Orchestre National du Capitole resulted in his being named ‘Révélation musicale de l'année’ by the French Critics’ Union in 2005. The relationship between Sokhiev and his musicians in Toulouse is increasingly celebrated - Figaro described the partnership as “at the centre of the French musical life” and Le Monde wrote of “sokhievmania” after a recent concert in Paris. His discography includes numerous highly-acclaimed recordings for Naïve Classique with Toulouse – including Tchaikovsky’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.  Their most recent release including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Firebird was released in January 2013.

 

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DSO Berlin, Music Director

At the beginning of this season, Mo. Sokhiev became Music Director of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for an initial period of four years. Projects this season include Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible and collaborations with internationally-acclaimed soloists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Emanuel Ax and Vadim Gluzman. 

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Tchaikovsky

Chicago SO Debut

Chicago
"He demonstrated a natural command that had this formidable group of virtuoso players on their mettle: American orchestral brilliance met Russian soul." John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

Brahms

RPS 200/Philharmonia

Royal Festival Hall
Sokhiev is the ideal conductor for such an occasion. Young, charismatic, and above all an enthusiast, he communicates his love of music with unforced charm... Brahms's First Symphony, with which Sokhiev closed, was a real roller-coaster ride, complete with volatile surges of emotion, and some handsome playing from the Philharmonia.
Tim Ashley, The Guardian

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8: Feb 2012

Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
Sokhiev's interpretation was remarkable - urgently erotic rather than languid, the string sound gloriously clear and opulent...The playing was exceptional, and there was no escaping the music's extremism or the hallucinatory quality of the orchestration... Sokhiev's conducting had plenty of edge and drive as well as elegance. A very fine evening. Martin Kettle, The Guardian

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