Russian Tugan Sokhiev, against the struggle in Ukraine, will conduct the 2027 New Year’s Concert | Culture | EUROtoday

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra introduced this Thursday, throughout its New Year’s live performance, the title of the conductor who will take cost of the 2027 New Year’s Concert. This announcement follows the customized of creating public the maestro chosen to take cost of the next 12 months’s well-known efficiency throughout the identical live performance. The title introduced on this event has been that of the Russian orchestra conductor Tugan Sokhiev (Vladikavkaz, 48 years outdated), who debuted on the Teatro Real in Madrid 20 years in the past, when he was a younger promise. This is the primary time he has been invited to conduct the New Year’s Concert, though he has already performed this nice orchestra.

Tugan Sokhiev’s collaboration with this historic Viennese orchestra dates again to 2009 throughout an Asian tour in Seoul. The Russian’s baton has led the Viennese Philharmonic in Vienna itself in a number of subscription concert events and likewise in different cities world wide. He performed the Midsummer Night’s Concert for the primary time, and likewise the Johann Strauss Anniversary Gala.

Tugan Sokhiev was musical director and chief conductor of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater from 2014 to 2022, when he resigned in protest towards the invasion of Ukraine. At the identical time he left the musical course of the Toulousse Orchestra after being pressured by the media to take sides. “I have been forced to choose between my beloved Russia and my beloved French musicians,” he defined then. “I have never supported and will always be against conflicts of any kind.” Coming from the identical Russian area as Valery Gergiev, Sokhiev was thought-about very near the maestro who. However, he has remained very near the Putin regime.

Sokhiev has carried out on the world’s main opera homes, together with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera. According to the Vienna Philharmonic, the Russian maestro, a disciple of Ilya Musin on the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, is particularly dedicated to the coaching of younger musicians. He actively participated within the Vienna Philharmonic academies for younger musicians. In 2016, he based a conducting academy in Toulouse.

“Tugan Sokhiev has been a close musical and personal friend since 2009. Our first performances together quickly fostered a strong mutual trust and musical understanding, which has continually deepened and developed since then, looking forward to our future projects and the upcoming New Year’s Concert,” Vienna Philharmonic President Daniel Froschauer defined within the textual content accompanying the announcement.

The election of Sokhiev appears to comply with the road of renewal and new bets undertaken in 2026 with the election of the 50-year-old Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who additionally has an essential lyrical resume as musical director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.