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Conductor
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. He was formerly chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Munich Philharmonic.
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Gergiev rose from student conductor to international prominence with remarkable speed, winning the All-Union Conductors' Competition in 1975 and the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Conductors' Competition in Berlin in 1977 while still in his mid-twenties. His 1978 professional debut conducting Prokofiev at the Kirov Opera launched a career of sustained excellence that would culminate in his appointment as artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, where he has presided over the company's ascent to global prominence for more than three decades. Today, Gergiev stands as one of the world's most sought-after conductors, commanding multiple major institutions and maintaining an exhaustive recording and performance schedule across the world's greatest stages.
Appointed Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in 1988 at age 35, transforming it into a globally competitive opera and ballet institution
Leningrad Conservatory (1972–1977); Ordzhoniskidze College of Music
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