The Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev – a pupil of the legendary conducting teacher Ilya
Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatory – divides his time between the symphonic and
operatic repertoire and as a guest conductor conducts the world’s most prestigious orchestras:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Wiener and Berliner Philharmoniker, the
symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Munich, NHK Symphony
Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, of which he was Principal
Conductor from 2012 to 2016. From 2008 to 2022, he was Music Director of the Orchestre
National du Capitole de Toulouse, conducting numerous first performances and touring
frequently and to great acclaim. Passionate about the operatic repertoire, he was Music
Director of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 2014 to 2022. In recent seasons he has been
a guest of the Metropolitan in New York (on tour with the Mariinsky Orchestra), the Aix-en-
Provence Festival and the Teatro Real in Madrid. His engagements this season include
concerts with the Filarmonica della Scala, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Dresdner
Staatskapelle. He will also return to conduct the Munich, Vienna, Berlin, Philadelphia
Philharmonia Orchestras and the Finnish Radio Orchestra.
Sokhiev has an extensive discography on the Naïve, Warner Classics and Sony
Classical labels, and was awarded the Diapason d’Or in 2020. He has collaborated with
EuroArts on a DVD series, the first of which – “A Flight through the Orchestra” – is
dedicated to Brahms’ Second Symphony with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. His 2019
concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker (with pieces by Ravel and Prokofiev) was also
recorded for the same label, while on the podium of the Capitole de Toulouse orchestra, he
recorded Bartók’s The Wooden Prince and Brahms’ First Symphony. His last appearance with
the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia dates back to May last year.