Teodor Currentzis Conductor

Teodor Currentzis was born in Greece, where he began studying music. In 1994, he entered St. Petersburg State Conservatory to study under the legendary professor Ilya Musin. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Utopia Orchestra and Chorus, Chief Conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and Artistic Director of musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir.

Together with his ensembles, he regularly tours in Europe and worldwide with performances in numerous venues including Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonic, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Munich Philharmonic, Philharmonie de Paris, Kölner Philharmonie, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Baden-Baden Festival, and Teatro alla Scala.

As a stage conductor and music director, he has worked with the leading opera houses including Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He has also collaborated with the key figures in modern Western theatre: Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Peter Sellars, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Theodoros Terzopoulos...

Teodor Currentzis is a Resident Artist at the Salzburg Festival as well as at the RUHRtriennale Festival, festivals in Lucerne and Aix-en-Provence. Works by Mozart, Mahler, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rameau, and Stravinsky released by Teodor Currentzis on Sony Classical record label have received numerous international music awards: ECHO Klassik, Edison Klassiek, Japanese Record Academy Award, and BBC Music Magazine’s Opera Award. Teodor Currentzis has received the Toepfer Foundation’s KAIROS Award. He has also been awarded the Greek Order of the Phoenix and the international Musikfest Bremen Award.

At the Paris Opera: Don Carlo, 2008; Macbeth, 2009