Yuri Temirkanov

Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Infobox person Template:Family name hatnoteYuri Khatuevich Temirkanov (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; 10 December 1938 – 2 November 2023) was a Soviet and Russian conductor,<ref name=operachic>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> named a People's Artist of the USSR.

Early life

Born in 1938 in the North Caucasus city of Nalchik, Temirkanov attended the Leningrad School for Talented Children where he continued his studies in violin and viola. His older brother Template:Ill was also a conductor.

Career

In 1968, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the then-renamed Leningrad Symphony where he remained until his appointment as Music Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet in 1976.

Temirkanov was the first Soviet artist permitted to perform in the United States after cultural relations were resumed with the Soviet Union at the end of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1988.

Temirkanov became artistic director and chief conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1988. He was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 2000 until 2006. He served as principal guest conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. In 2015, the Teatro La Fenice awarded Temirkanov its prize 'A Life for Music' (unofficially known as the Nobel Prize for Musicians).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Death

Yuri Temirkanov died on 2 November 2023, at the age of 84.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Controversy

Temirkanov drew attention for saying that women are essentially weak and thus not well suited to be classical conductors.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In a 2016 interview, he stated:

"Yes, women can be conductors. I am not against them conducting. But I simply don't like it."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honors and awards

• State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1998 (4 June 1999) – for concert programs 1995–1998 Academic Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after Shostakovich
• Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2002 (13 February 2003)
• The 6432 Temirkanov asteroid was named after the conductor (1975)
• ribbon bar Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2015)

Gallery

• Yuri Temirkanov and Vladimir Putin - 14 December 2013 - 2.jpg

  Yuri Temirkanov and Vladimir Putin at a gala concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the conductor (December 14, 2013)

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  Performing in Israel (2018)

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  Awarding of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st degree (2009)

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  Awarding of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (June 12, 2018)

External links

• Interview with Yuri Temirkanov, July 17, 1997
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