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Tugan Sokhiev
Tugan Sokhiev is rapidly establishing an international reputation, and is in demand from opera houses and orchestras worldwide. He has a close association with the Mariinsky Theatre and at the beginning of the 2005/2006 season he became Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Since September 2008, he is now Musical Director of the orchestra.
Sokhiev was born in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia in 1977 and studied at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. A pupil of the late Professor Ilya Musin, he subsequently attended the operatic and symphonic conducting classes of Yuri Temirkanov, graduating in summer 2001. In 2000, he gained the top award in the 3rd International Prokofiev Competition and thereafter became Artistic Director of the North Ossetian State Philharmonic Orchestra until the 2002/2003 season.
He made his full Kirov Opera debut in December 2001 with Il Viaggio a Reims, and returned in 2002 and 2003 for Eugene Onegin, with which he also made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2003. In the 2005/2006 season he conducted performances of The Golden Cockerel, Iolanta, Samson and Delilah and Onegin, and he performed his first new production with the company in Autumn 2004.
He started to receive international invitations while still a student and early seasons included Icelandic Opera (La bohème), Orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper (a notably successful Rachmaninov Symphony #2), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Montpellier and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
In 2002 he made his UK debut conducting La bohème for Welsh National Opera, followed by a number of further productions, including a notable Onegin in Spring 2004. In 2002 he also made his acclaimed Philharmonia Orchestra debut with Rachmaninov #2 and now returns regularly. In the 2003/2004 season he made successful debuts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Orchestre National de Toulouse. He also made an acclaimed debut at the 2004 Aix-en-Provence Festival (Love of Three Oranges). He conducted hugely successful revivals of this production for the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg in 2005 and at the Teatro Real, Madrid in Autumn 2006.
Since 2005 he made debuts with Houston Grand Opera (Boris Godunov), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Orquesta Nacional de España, La Scala, Euskadi Orchestra and RAI Turin. He also returned to Finnish Radio, DSO Berlin, Bournemouth Symphony, Orchestre National de France and the Philharmonia, as well as his regular appearances with the Mariinsky Theatre and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
