Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
Teodor Currentzis was an employee for whom between Aug 2007 and Aug 2008?
Teodor Currentzis Teodor Currentzis ( ; born 24 February 1972 ) is a Greek-Russian conductor , musician and actor . Currentzis was born in Athens , and at age 4 began to take piano lessons . At age 7 , he began violin lessons . He entered the National Conservatory , Athens at the age of 12 , in the violin department . In 1987 , aged 15 , he began composition studies under Professor George Hadjinikos , and then in 1989 under Professor B . Shreck . From 1994 to 1999 , Currentzis studied conducting in the St . Petersburg State Conservatory with Ilya Musin . From 2004 to 2010 , Currentzis served as principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre , where in 2004 he founded the Orchestra MusicAeterna and later the Chorus MusicAeterna . Since February 2011 , Currentzis has been music director of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre , to which he brought both of his MusicAeterna groups . Currentzis became principal guest conductor of the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2011 . In April 2017 , the SWR announced the appointment of Currentzis as the first chief conductor of the SWR Symphonieorchester ( the successor orchestra to the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra ) , effective with the 2018–2019 season . Outside of music , in 2009 , Currentzis acted in Ilya Khrzhanovskys film Dau ( ) based on the biography of the physicist Lev Landau . Awards . Currentzis has won the National Theatre Award Golden Mask nine times : - 2007 : Special Awards of the Musical Theatre Jury for Sergei Prokofievs Cinderella . - 2008 : Special Award of the Musical Theatre Jury For Impressive Achievements in Musical Authenticity in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro . - 2011 : Best Conductor of an opera for Alban Bergs Wozzeck at the Bolshoi Theater . - 2013 : Best Conductor of an opera for Mozarts Così fan tutte - 2013 : Best Conductor of a ballet for Sergei Prokofievs Chout - 2015 : Best Conductor of an opera for Henry Purcells The Indian Queen - 2017 : Best Conductor of an opera for Giuseppe Verdis La Traviata - 2018 : Best Conductor of a ballet for Sergei Prokofievs Cinderella - 2018 : Special Awards of the Musical Theatre Jury for Cantos , Aleksey Syumaks opera Productions . - 2004/05 – Giuseppe Verdis Aida directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov . - 2005/06 – concert performance and CD record of Henry Purcells Dido and Aeneas . - 2006/07 – Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro directed by Tatjana Gürbaca . - 2006/07 – Dmitri Shostakovichs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk directed by Henrich Baranovsky . - 2007 – Sergei Prokofievs Cinderella . - 2008/09 – Giuseppe Verdis Macbeth directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre and Opéra Bastille . - 2009/10 – Alban Bergs Wozzeck directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Bolshoi Theatre . - 2009/10 – Mozarts Don Giovanni directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov in Bolshoi Theatre and Aix-en-Provence Festival . - 2010 – Mieczysław Weinbergs The Passenger at the Bregenzer Festspiele directed by David Pountney . - 2010 – Alexei Siumaks The Requiem in the Moscow Art Theatre . - 2011 – Mozarts Così fan tutte in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . - 2012 – Tchaikovskys Iolanta and Stravinskys Persephone in the Teatro Real , Madrid . - 2012 – Verdis Macbeth in the Bavarian State Opera , Munich . - 2012 – Sergei Prokofievs Chout . - 2013 – Purcells The Indian Queen in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre with coproduction of Teatro Real and English National Opera . - 2014 – Dmitry Kurlyandskys Nosferatu in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . - 2014 – Mozarts Don Giovanni in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . - 2015 – Dmitri Shostakovichs Orango at Diaghilev Festival . - 2016 – Giuseppe Verdis La Traviata directed by Robert Wilson in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . - 2017 – Mozarts La clemenza di Tito at Salzburg Festival - 2018 – Arthur Honeggers Jeanne dArc au bûcher at Diaghilev Festival . - 2018 – Sergei Prokofievs Cinderella in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . - 2018 – Alexey Symaks Cantos in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre . Discography . - Purcell : Dido and Aeneas ( Alpha , 2008 ) - Mozart : Requiem ( Alpha , 2011 ) - Shostakovich : Symphony No . 14 ( Alpha , 2011 ) - Shostakovich : Piano Concertos ; Sonata for Violin and Piano ( Harmonia Mundi , 2012 ) - Mozart : Le Nozze di Figaro ( Sony Classical , 2014 ) - Rameau : The Sound of Light ( Sony Classical , 2014 ) - Mozart : Così fan tutte ( Sony Classical , 2014 ) - Stravinsky : Le Sacre du printemps ( Sony Classical , 2015 ) - Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto , Stravinsky : Les Noces ( Sony Classical , 2016 ) - Mozart : Don Giovanni ( Sony Classical , 2016 ) - Artyomov : Symphony Gentle Emanation ( Divine Art , 2016 ) - Tchaikovsky : Symphony No . 6 ( Sony Classical , 2017 ) - Mahler : Symphony No . 6 ( Sony Classical , 2018 ) - Beethoven : Symphony No . 5 ( Sony Classical , 2020 ) Filmography . - Iolanta/Perséphone ( Teatro Real , 2012 ) - Purcell : The Indian Queen ( Sony Classical , 2015 ) - Dau : Lev Landau ( Ilya Khrzhanovsky , 2019 ) External links . - Official Teodor Currentzis website - The Magnet , by Hartmut Welscher , VAN Magazine , 1 June 2017 .