Alexander Stetsenko, Deputy Head of the International Roerichs Center, told socialbites.ca that St. He said that Yuri Temirkanov, artistic director of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra and head of the Center, “has been ill for a long time. ”
“I can’t make any comments. Now I learned from the press. I can’t say anything yet. I just know that he has been sick for a long time. This is difficult news for all of us,” he said.
The fact that the famous chef Yuri Temirkanov died at the age of 85 was announced on Thursday in St. Reported by the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov was born on December 10, 1938 in Nalchik. He was one of the four children of Khatu Temirkanov, who headed the Kabardino-Balkar Artistic Affairs Committee.
He graduated from the orchestra department in 1962 and from the opera and symphony conducting class of the Leningrad Conservatory (now the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after NA Rimsky-Korsakov) in 1965.
Temirkanov served as artistic director and chief conductor of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater from 1976 to 1988. In 1987, he performed with the orchestra of this theater in London in productions of the operas “Boris Godunov”, “The Queen of Spades” and “Eugene Onegin”. After the death of Evgeniy Mravinsky in 1988, Temirkanov moved to St. He became the artistic director and principal conductor of the ZKR Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Temirkanov often performed with foreign orchestras. Thus, he received the guest conductorship of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London in 1980 and served as principal conductor from 1992 to 1998. Other ensembles with which Temirkanov has worked include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Symphony Orchestra, etc. is located. Temirkanov has been the main guest conductor of the Bolshoi Theater since 2007.
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