Julian Kovatchev Biography

Julian Kovatchev Biography
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Julian Kovatchev
Music Director and Principal Conductor of Daegu Symphony Orchestra and Artistic and Music Director
at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Julian Kovatchev studied violin and at the age of five he made his first
public concert. After his first music studies in Sofia the family moved to Germany, near Salzburg, where
he studied with Franz Samohyl at the Mozarteum and got his degree in 1973.
He won a scholarship of the Karajan-Stiftung and moved to Berlin, studying orchestra conduction with
Herbert Ahlendorf and Herbert von Karajan. Between 1975 and 1980 he made a great experience with the
Berliner Philharmoniker, with the legendary violins of M. Schwalbé, T. Brandis and L. Spierei.
He was awarded by Karajan during the last edition of the prestigious contest organized by himself in
1984. In 1985 he made his debut at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste with Jenufa of Janàcek and appeared
regularly on the major Italian theatres and orchestras such as Teatro alla Scala, San Carlo in Naples,
Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Comunale in
Bologna, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro Comunale in Cagliari.
He has been Music Director of the prestigious Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and Principal Director of the
Symphonic Orchestra of Zagreb and of Teatro Verdi di Trieste.
He is often a guest of Orchestra Sinfonica “Arturo Toscanini” in Parma, Orchestra Nazionale della Rai in
Turin, Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan. Moreover, for many years he is been carrying out
an extended and fruitful collaboration with Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, where he is been regularly
conducting both operatic and symphonic works which have been broadcasted on TV worldwide. Abroad
he conducted the Radio Orchestra of Köln, the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Geneva, the Symphonic
Orchestra of the Radio of Prague, the prestigious KBS in Seoul and he is a frequent guest of Dresden
Staatskapelle.
In 2001 he opened the Ravenna Festival with Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, obtaining great
reviews from public and critics.
He conducted again I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Carlo Felice in Genoa, Carmen, La Sposa Venduta and
Rake’s Progress at Teatro Verdi in Trieste, I Dialoghi delle Carmelitane in Seville, Il Trovatore in
Stuttgart and in Ravenna, Un Ballo in Maschera in Verona, concerts with Orchestra del San Carlo in
Naples and with Maestro Uto Ughi, a new production of Orfeo ed Euridice in Naples, as well as
Rigoletto in Toronto, with big success.
He also conducted Alcina, Il Trovatore and Madama Butterfly in Stuttgart and in Genoa, Cavalleria
Rusticana and Pagliacci in Piacenza, La Forza del Destino in Piacenza, La Bohème at Puccini Festival in
Torre del Lago, in Seoul and in Toronto, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Traviata, Carmen and
Nabucco at Arena di Verona, Carmen in Savona, La Vedova Allegra in Bari, Werther in Sassari, Norma
in Reggio Calabria and Trieste, Tosca in Frankfurt, La Vedova Allegra and Roméo et Juliette in Trieste.
At the same time, Julian Kovatchev has a wide symphonic activity including concerts in Trieste,
Bologna, Verona, at San Carlo in Naples, at Carlo Felice in Genoa, in Zagreb, with Sicilian Symphony
Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, Toscanini Orchestra in Parma, as well as with the prestigious
KBS in Seoul. Furthermore, he was invited at the prestigious Festival del Sole in Cortona with Orchestra
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del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and he conducted Orchestra Regionale della Toscana in a series of
concerts.
In the recent years, he obtained a great success conducting Madama Butterfly in San Francisco, Cagliari
and Seattle, La Vedova Allegra and I Pagliacci at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Lucia di Lammermoor
in Trieste, Tosca in Lucca, La Traviata and Tosca in Dresden, concerts in Catania and Ankara,
symphonic concerts in Prague and Cagliari. Further highlights in the recent seasons were Falstaff in
Seoul, Nabucco, Aida and Carmen at Arena di Verona, La Bohème in Dresden, Otello in Budapest, Il
Matrimonio Segreto in Lucca and Ravenna, Norma in Cagliari, as well as concerts in Bratislava, Prague,
Las Palmas, Cagliari, Budapest and Lucca. Most recently, he conducted Roméo et Juliette in Seoul and
Daegu, Tosca in Seattle and Dresden, Tosca and Nabucco at Arena di Verona.
Future plans include Aida and Carmen at Arena di Verona, concerts with the Daegu Symphony.
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