Jerzy Semkow

Jerzy Semkow , born in 1928, is a Leader Polish.

Biography

He was the assistant and the collaborator close relation of Evgueni Mravinski with Leningrad of 1954 to 1956. He also worked near Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter before being appointed chief with the Bolchoï. Thereafter, he was successively permanent chief and artistic director of various scenes of Western Europe, as with the National theater of the Opera of Warsaw, with the Royal Theater of Copenhagen, the Orchestra of the SPOKE before taking the direction, in the United States, of the phalanges of Saint Louis and Rochester. One saw it on the most prestigious scenes of Europe, alternating between the lyric one and the symphonic one.

Jerzy Semkow is Chevalier of Arts and the Letters, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy Frederic Chopin of Warsaw and decorated with the Polish order Gloria Artis.

Repertory

Its repertory is rather vast. It goes from Mozart to Szymanowski, while passing by Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven and the Russian romanticism. Its interpretations mozartiennes highly were greeted and rewarded. Its direction is firm, clear and rigorous, of a frightening precision, but it combines there a great direction of the colors and nuances, in the line of the Soviet big bosses. Its interpretations of the Second and Fourth symphonies of Brahms are particularly moving.

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