Valeriy Gergiev

Valery Gergiev is a conductor of the London Symphony and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras. For several decades he has been the permanent artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater. The musician's talent admires, Gergiev managed to open Russian music to Western audiences.

Valery Abisalovich was born on May 2, 1953 in Moscow. The Gergievs' only son was named after test pilot Valery Chkalov, who was the first to make a non-stop flight across the North Pole. Parents are Ossetians by nationality, father Abisal Zaurbekovich Gergiev commanded a battalion during the war.

Unfortunately, when Valery was 13 years old, his father was gone. The children were raised by their mother, Tamara Timofeevna Lagkueva. Gergiev has two sisters - Larisa, who became a recognized pianist, opera director, received the title of People's Artist of Russia, and Svetlana.

At the age of 7, Tamara Timofeevna brought her son to a music school, where her eldest daughter was already studying. Valery himself was more interested in playing football, so the boy anxiously looked out the window, listening to the teacher. The teacher played a melody and asked the boy to repeat the rhythm. Valery Gergiev repeated. The teacher did not give up and asked to do the same again - the boy decided to improvise. The teacher issued a verdict: Valery has no hearing, let him play football better. Later, recalling that incident from the childhood period of his own biography, the famous conductor will say that he tried to improve the musical line, but the teacher did not understand this.

The mother made sure that her son was enrolled in a music school, where he quickly became the best student. Music lessons and yard games did not prevent Valery from studying well in an ordinary school - the boy participated in mathematical Olympiads. Before his death, the father managed to teach his son to always go to his own goal and keep promises, and also love his family.

In 1972, Valery Gergiev entered the Leningrad Conservatory and studied there for 5 years in the class of Ilya Alexandrovich Musin, the founder of the Leningrad conducting school. According to the musician, life in a hostel became the first school of life. In the same place, Valery fell in love with Russian classics and Richard Wagner, it was love from the first note that the conductor carried through life.

For the first time, Valery Gergiev loudly announced his talent as a student. The young man took part in the international festival. Herbert von Karajan, held in Berlin, and received the Grand Prix. Then there was the next victory - at the All-Union Conducting Competition, held in Moscow.

After graduating from the Conservatory, Valery Gergiev worked as an assistant conductor at the Kirov Theater. A year later, in 1978, Valery first stood at the main console. Gergiev's conductor's debut was Sergei Prokofiev's opera War and Peace. Then for four years Gergiev directed the orchestra in Armenia, and in 1988 he became the chief conductor of the Kirov Theater. In his first year in his new position, Valery Gergiev organized a thematic festival based on the works of Modest Mussorgsky. In the future, such events have become a tradition.

To stage Russian opera masterpieces, the maestro invites world-renowned directors and set designers. The 1990 festival Gergiev dedicated to the work of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1991 - Sergei Prokofiev, and 1994 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The next festival took place in 2006 in London and was timed to coincide with the centenary of the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich.

In the 90s Valery Gergiev often toured abroad. In 1992, the musician made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as a conductor of the opera Othello. In 1995 Gergiev was invited to conduct with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Rotterdam. As a guest conductor, Gergiev collaborated with the orchestra until 2008.

In 2003, the conductor founded the Valery Gergiev Foundation, a charitable organization that assists in conducting musical, educational and educational projects. On the initiative of the musician, a number of international music festivals have been founded and operate.

2007 began with changes for Valery Gergiev. On January 1, the conductor took over the London Symphony Orchestra. Critics and colleagues characterized the musician's work as bright and emotional, always with an extraordinary reading. At the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Gergiev conducted the orchestra on Red Square via teleconference.

In 2012, a large-scale international action took place with the participation of Valery Gergiev and James Cameron - a 3D broadcast of Swan Lake to the whole world. A year later, the maestro became one of the nominees for the Grammy after performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances with musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 2014, Valery Gergiev took part in a concert dedicated to the work of Maya Plisetskaya. The conductor, together with musicians from the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, performed Bolero by Maurice Ravel. The concert also featured Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler and the Carmen suite by Bizet-Shchedrin.

But Gergiev's main achievement is the Mariinsky Theater, which the musician has headed for 20 years. Valery Gergiev became the artistic director and director of the Mariinsky Theater in 1996 and did everything possible and impossible to make the troupe the best in the world.

The artistic director spends 250 days a year with the troupes of his own theater. Over the years spent in it, Gergiev trained many world-famous singers, updated the repertoire, including the works of Russian classics. Valery Gergiev works closely with Yuri Bashmet. The musicians give concerts together, hold music festivals, and also go to master classes at musical educational institutions in Russia.

On May 5, 2016 in the amphitheater of Palmyra, right in the open air, the Mariinsky Orchestra gave a concert “With a Prayer for Palmyra”. Valery Gergiev was conducting.

People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of state awards, multiple winner of the Golden Mask and Golden Sofit awards, and other prestigious awards Valery Gergiev remains faithful to music and his native theater.

Valery Gergiev had hobbies in his youth, mainly opera singers. But each time the mother asked her son to think about what kind of mother and wife she would be, so the conductor was in no hurry to make drastic changes in his personal life.

Valery met his future wife in 1998 at a music competition in St. Petersburg. Ossetian Natalya Dzebisova, a graduate of the Valery Gergiev Music School in Vladikavkaz, was among the laureates and, without knowing it, won the maestro's heart. The romance broke out immediately, but at first the young met in secret. Natalia was twice as young as Valery.

In 1999, the lovers got married - the wedding was celebrated in Vladikavkaz on a grand scale. More than a thousand guests from different parts of Russia and the CIS came to the celebration. A year later, the first-born Abisal was born in the family. In 2001, the second son Valery was born, and in 2003 - daughter Tamara. Family photos of the maestro often appear on the Internet.

Journalists wrote that Valery Gergiev has an illegitimate daughter, Natalya, who was born in 1985 from a relationship with the philologist Elena Ostovich.

Now Valery Gergiev is actively involved in creative work. In the fall, the maestro held a friendly meeting with the finalists of the project “You are super! Dances ”, by participants who arrived from the post-Soviet countries. Young artists met with the venerable conductor after watching the opera "A Christmas Tale".

In December, Valery Gergiev, together with musicians of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, held the final concert performances of the year. At the same time, Rodion Shchedrin's opera The Enchanted Wanderer was performed at the Gasteig Philharmonic. A festival in honor of the composer, where the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra also performed, was later held in Moscow, in the Tchaikovsky Hall. The conductor covers all the details of his creative life on the official website.

Festival "For Peace in the Caucasus" in Vladikavkaz "Mikkeli Festival" in Finland Red Sea Festival in Eilat Kirov-Philharmonic Rotterdam Philharmonic Moscow Easter Festival "Stars of the White Nights" in St. Petersburg

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