Biography
Valery Gergiev is the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, conductor of the London Symphony and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras. The talent of the musician admires, because Maestro managed to open Russian music to the Western viewer.Childhood and youth
Valery Abisalovich was born on May 2, 1953 in Moscow. The only son of Gergiev was called in honor of the test pilot Valery Chkalov, who was the first to commit a foreign flight through the North Pole. Parents - Ossetians by nationality, father Abisal Zaurbekovich Gergiev commanded a battalion during the war.
Unfortunately, when Valery turned 13 years old, the father did not. Children brought up the mother of Tamara Timofeevna Lagkuev. Gergiev has two sisters: Larisa, who became a recognized pianist, opened director, received the title of People's Artist of Russia, and Svetlana.
At 7, Tamara Timofeevna led her son to a music school, where the eldest daughter was already engaged. Valery himself, from the young age, occupied the game in football. Nevertheless, the mother achieved the heir to enroll in school, where he quickly became the best student. Music lessons and yard games did not interfere with Valery to study well in an ordinary school - the boy participated in mathematical Olympiads. Before death, the father managed to teach the Son to always go to his own goal, to fulfill promises and love the family.
In 1972, Valery Gergiev entered the Leningrad Conservatory and was held there for 5 years in the class of Ilya Alexandrovich Musina, the creator of the Leningrad Conductor School. According to the musician, in the youth, accommodation in the hostel was the first school of life. There, Valery fell in love with Russian classics and Richard Wagner, it was love from the first note that the conductor carried through life.
Music
For the first time, Valery said loudly about talent back in student years. The young man participated in the international festival named after the Herberta von Karaian, held in Berlin, and received the Grand Prix. Then the next victory was at the All-Union Conductor Competition, held in Moscow.Since 1981, a young talent led the orchestra in Armenia. In the 90s, Gergiev was often toured abroad. In 1992, the musician made his debut in the metropolitan-opera as the opera conductor "Othello". In 1995, the artist was invited to head the philharmonic orchestra in Rotterdam. In this capacity, Valery Abisalovich collaborated with the team until 2008.
In 2003, the conductor founded the Charitable Organization "Valery Gergiev Foundation", which helps in conducting musical, educational and educational projects. At the initiative of the musician, a number of international music festivals are founded.
2007 began for Valery Abisalovich with change. January 1, the conductor headed the London Symphony Orchestra. Critics and colleagues characterized the creativity of the musician as a bright and emotional, always with an extraordinary reading of the classics. At the closure of the Winter Olympics - 2010, held in Vancouver, the Hergians conducted the orchestra on the Red Square in the telelight mode.
In 2012, a large-scale international campaign was held with Valery Abisalovich and James Cameron - 3D-broadcast of the Swan Lake on the whole world. A year later, Maestro was among the nominees for the Grammy Award after the performance of the "symphonic dances" of Sergei Rakhmaninov with the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 2014, Gergiev participated in a concert dedicated to the work of Maya Plisetskaya. The conductor, together with the musicians of the Mariinsky Theater orchestra, performed the work of Maurice Ravel "Bolero". ADAGIETTO also sounded at the concert from Symphony No. 5 Gustav Maleer and Suite Carmen George Bizé and Rodion Shchedrin.
In 2017 in the Resort village of Repino, near the Finnish Bay, a concert hall, built on the helicheyev, opened. The authors of the project were the architect and restorer of Xavier Fabr and the acoustic design engineer Yasuchis Toyota.
In the autumn of the same year, Maestro organized a friendly meeting with the finalists of the project "Super! Dancing ", arriving from the countries of the post-Soviet space. Small artists met with a mast conductor after watching the "Christmas Tale" opera.
In December, Gergiev, together with the musicians of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, held concluding concert speeches of the year. At the same time, the Opera Rodion Shchedrin "Enchanted Wanderer" was performed in the Fillarmonia "Gastayg". The festival in honor of the composer, where the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater was also made, later in Moscow, in the Chaikovsky hall.
All the details of the creative life conductor highlighted on the official website. At the concerts of the musician, the heads of state were often present, including Vladimir Putin.
Mariinskii Opera House
After graduating from the Conservatory, Valery worked as an Assistant of the conductor in the Kirov Theater (in 1992 by returning the historical name Mariinsky). A year later, in 1978, he first got up for the main console. The conductor Debut Gergiev became the opera Sergei Prokofiev "War and Peace".
After a decade, Valery Abisalovich became the chief conductor of the Kirov Theater. In the first year in the new position, he organized the thematic festival for the works of Modest Mussorgsky. In the future, such events became a tradition.
For the production of Russian opera masterpieces of Maestro invites directors and scenographs with world name. The 1990 Festival Gergiev dedicated the work of Peter Tchaikovsky, 1991 - Sergey Prokofiev, and the 1994th - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1996, a sign event occurred in the biographies of the maestro: Valery Abisalovich took the post of Mariinsky's director. With the arrival of Gergiev, many works of Richard Wagner returned to the scene, which included the theater bills at the beginning of the XX century. The symphony repertoire expanded.
With the new director, the changes affected not only the artistical part, but also architectural. In 2006, the solemn opening of the concert hall was held, in 2013 - the second scene (Mariinsky-2), and since 2016 the theater expanded the borders by creating 2 branches: in Vladivostok and Vladikavkaz.
I have not yet been director, Gergiev sought to ensure the body of the theater Comfortable conditions for work. So, barely having received the post Khuduka, Valery Abisalovich dismantled at the Leningrad Public Council of the CPSU, which was built for artists, which was planned to transfer to the "Afghans". In 1995, in the country difficult for the country, was not afraid to knock out $ 10 million from Viktor Chernomyrdin to preserve Big and Marinki.
Together with the orchestra of the theater, Gergiev appeared not only at solemn events and international tour - performances were conducted and due to tragic events. So, in 2004, after the terrorist act in Ossetia, the conductor organized the cycle of concerts "Beslan. In the name of life. " After 4 years, the performers appeared in the dilapidated Tskhinvale to give a tribute to the memory of innocent people. On May 5, 2016 in the Amphitheater Palmyra right in the open sky, the Mariinki Orchestra performed the classic works.
Over the years, the director of the Mariinsky Theater of Maestro brought many musicians of world values. Valery Gergiev works closely with Yuri Bashmet. In addition, the Symphony Orchestra regularly conducts interesting collaborations with other world-class musicians. So, in 2020, a joint concert with Pianist Mao Fujititis passed in the charge park.
Since 1993, the "Stars of White Nights" festival has been held on the basis of the Mariinsky Theater. In that year, Anatoly Sobchak allocated 1 thousand rubles for an event. Invitation received 10 journalists, 2 cameras worked, and there were several bottles of champagne and candy as a bucket. Since then, much has changed - now the project was among the largest musical festivals of the world.
Personal life
Gergiev had hobbies in youth, mostly opera singers. But each time I asked my son every time, what the one would be mother and wife, so the conductor did not hurry to the cardinal changes in his personal life.With the future wife, the conductor met in 1998 on a musical competition in St. Petersburg. Ossetka Natalya Dzebisova, a graduate of the music school named after Valery Gergiev in Vladikavkaz, fell into the number of laureates and, herself without knowing, won the heart of the maestro. Roman broke out right away, but the first time the young people met secretly. Natalia was twice as younger than Valeria.
In 1999, lovers got married - the wedding was celebrated in Vladikavkaz with a scope. For a celebration, more than a thousand guests from different parts of Russia and the CIS. A year later, the firstborn was born in the family. In 2001, the second son of Valery was born, and in 2003 - the daughter of Tamara. Family photos of the maestro often appear on the net. Journalists also wrote that Valery Gergiev has an extramarital daughter Natalia, who was born in 1985 from communication with the Philologist Elena Ostovich.
Valery Gergiev now
In 2021, Maestro continued creative activities. According to the tradition of spring in the Mariinsky Theater, the XXIX Festival "Stars of White Nights" began, which submitted to the public bright and rich poster. Among the participants - Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Bukbinder, Placido Domingo and other stars. The conductor himself appeared as a guest in the "Leningrad" programs of "Evening Urgant".
Awards and titles
- 2000 - Order of friendship for services to the state, many years of fruitful activities in the field of culture and art, a great contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation between nations
- 2001 - Honorary Doctor of St. Petersburg State University
- 2001 - Honorary Professor MSU. M. V. Lomonosov
- 2003 - Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg"
- 2003 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" III degree for an outstanding contribution to musical culture
- 2008 - Honorary Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- 2008 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" IV degree for a great contribution to the development of domestic and world musical and theater arts, many years of creative activity
- 2009 - gratitude to the President of the Russian Federation for holding the concert of the Greater Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater under the leadership of Valery Gergiev in support of victims during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict of residents of Tskhinvala
- 2010 - Medal of Rev. Sergius of Radonezh I degree
- 2011 - Member of the Swedish Royal Music Academy
- 2013 - the hero of the labor of the Russian Federation for special labor services to the state and the people
- 2014 - Honorary Citizen Belorsk
- 2016 - Order of Alexander Nevsky for special merits in the preparation and conduct of humanitarian foreign policy shares, contributing to the strengthening of peace and friendship between nations
- 2017 - Honorary Doctor of Sciences of the National Music Academy named after Professor Pancho Vladiellova
- 2019 - Honorary Citizen North Ossetia
- 2019 - Order "Adæma Khorzæh"
Projects
- 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 White Nights" in St. Petersburg