Tugan Sokhiev

• People´s Artist of Republic North Osetia–Alania
• Prize-winner at the III Prokofiev International Conducting Competition

Tugan Sokhiev has been a conductor with the Mariinsky Theatre since 2005 where he has conducted premieres of the operas Il viaggio a Reims, Carmen and The Tale of Tsar Saltan. At the start of the 2008-09 season Tugan Sokhiev was appointed Music Director of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse following three years as its Principal Guest Conductor and
Artistic Adviser. For the first time the ensemble’s recordings on the Naïve classique label (Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf) received magnificent reviews.
Tugan Sokhiev has conducted a series of concerts in Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb, San Sebastian and Valencia as well as many towns and cities in France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Spain, China and Japan. In 2002 Tugan Sokhiev made his debut with Welsh National Opera (La Bohème), followed by the Metropolitan Opera (Eugene Onegin) in 2003. The same year, the conductor performed for the first time with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. The concert was lavishly praised by the critics and marked the start of Tugan Sokhiev’s collaboration with the orchestra.
In 2004 the conductor brought the ever-popular opera The Love for Three Oranges to the Aix-en-Provence Festival, which was later performed to great acclaim in Luxemburg and Madrid (the Teatro Real), and in 2006 there came a perfomance of Boris Godunov, which was also a great success.
In 2009 the conductor made his debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker and received delighted responses from the critics.
In recent concert seasons, Tugan Sokhiev has conducted the operas The Golden Cockerel, Iolanta, Samson et Dalila, The Fiery Angel and Carmen at the Mariinsky Theatre as well as The Queen of Spades and Iolanta at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
The conductor currently has a busy touring schedule throughout Europe, performing as a guest conductor in Strasbourg, Montpellier and Frankfurt among other towns and cities, collaborating with such ensembles as the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Radio France Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich). Tugan Sokhiev recently made his debut with the Rotterdam and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, receiving the title of Dirigentenwunderwaffe (“miracle conductor”) from the critics. Other achievements in recent seasons include successful debuts with the Spanish National Orchestra, the RAI Orchestra (Turin) and a series of concerts at the Teatro alla Scala. Tugan Sokhiev has, moreover, appeared as Principal Guest Conductor with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, Japan’s NHK orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia.
Tugan Sokhiev’s plans for the 2010-2011 season and beyond include The Queen of Spades at the Wiener Staatsoper, performances with the Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Finnish Radio Orchestra and the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in addition to concerts and a European tour with London’s Philharmonia orchestra (with which he tours on an annual basis) and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Future seasons include numerous planned projects with the Mariinsky Theatre, studio recordings in Toulouse, extensive tours and several operatic productions at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.