Tugan Sokhiev

Tugan Taimurasowitsch Sochijew (Russian Туган Таймуразович Сохиев; Ossetian: Тугьан Сохиты; * 1977 in Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetia -Alania ) is a conductor of the Russian Federation.

Life

Sochijew started seven years ago with the piano lessons, with 17 he conducted for the first time. He was encouraged to do so by the conductor of the North Ossetian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatoly Briskin. He then studied at the Conservatory in Saint Petersburg in Yuri Temirkanov and Ilya Musin Chatujewitsch.

His first opera La Bohème conducted Sochijew in Iceland. The Director General of the Welsh National Opera, Anthony Freud, he was appointed Music Director in 2001 for a five-year period from 2003. Sochiew 2004 resigned his post at the Welsh National Opera. From 2005 Sochiew guest conductor at the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, where he became music director in 2008.

In September 2010 Sochijew signed an agreement pursuant to which it will be for four years Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ( DSO) from September 2012. The orchestra had excellent experiences made ​​in several concerts with him. He was thus the ideal candidate for the time after leaving Ingo Metzmacher.

On January 20, 2014 it was announced that with immediate effect Sochijew new music director of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre is.

Honors

• Sochijew is People's Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
• 2013: Chevalier of the French Ordre National du Mérite.

Discography

• Tableaux d'une exposition: Mussorgsky; Symphony No. 4, Tchaikovsky, Naïve, France 2006, CD.
• Peter and the Wolf: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Naïve, France, 2007, CD.