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	Mariinsky.ru - Orchestra - Conductors - Valery Gergiev
		Valery Gergiev is the founder and artistic director of many international music festivals including For Peace in the Caucasus (Vladikavkaz), the Mikkeli Festival (Finland), the Red Sea Festival (Eilat), the Kirov Philharmonic (London), the Rotterdam Philharmonic-Gergiev Festival (the Netherlands) and the Moscow Easter Festival.
		Valery Gergiev has been awarded the Crystal Prize for his dedication to the arts and his contribution to cultural dialogue; the prize was presented by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
		In April 2004, Valery Gergiev was made a People´s Artist of Ukraine, the country´s highest State award, in recognition of his "important contribution to the development of cultural relations between Ukraine and Russia and his many years of fruitful activity".
	www.mariinsky.ru /en/orchestra/conductors/gergiev (1323 words)

	Valery Gergiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gergiev was born in Moscow on 2 May 1953 to Ossetian parents and raised in Vladikavkaz in their native North Ossetia in the Caucasus.
		Gergiev is particularly renowned for his passionate, almost abrasive, conducting style, and tendency to grunt at the podium.
		Gergiev has also been a consistent supporter of peace in the Caucasus, particularly in the conflict between the Georgian central government and South Ossetia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valery_Gergiev (470 words)

	Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest: Home
		Lof is er vooral voor het feit dat het orkest weer heeft gekozen voor een jonge, energieke dirigent.
		Valery Gergiev begint aan een opvallende reeks concerten die zijn afscheid als chef-dirigent markeren.
		Zijn laatste seizoen als chef-dirigent stelt Valery Gergiev in het teken van Brahms, een oude liefde.
	www.rpho.nl (2527 words)

	Conduct With All You've Got, Conk Out During Intermission - New York Times
		VALERY GERGIEV, the energetic, continent-hopping Russian conductor, had met his match: a vicious virus caught during a monthlong tour.
		Gergiev was supposed to have been flying that day to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he was due for his next appointment as principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
		Gergiev blamed his ailment on exposure to the cold during a tour in Japan the previous weeks, when he was stopped by fans outside a hall after a hot shower.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/05/arts/music/05waki.html?ex=1299214800&en=6ba39d5e93199e16&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (881 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: The Maestro of Midnight: Gergiev
		Gergiev studied there in the early seventies, and his teacher was an amazing man named Ilya Musin, who has taught each of the last three directors of the Kirov and who still teaches five days a week at the age of ninety-four.
		Gergiev is thankful that he was instead put to work as a staff conductor at the Kirov: “It was good for me—a time when I just worked very hard and found who I was as a conductor.
		Gergiev’s performances are really a kind of intellectual argument in themselves, to the effect that Russian composers are not virtuosos or eccentrics or genius amateurs—which is how standard histories generally treat them—but, rather, musical auteurs, whose output must be taken whole.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2004/05/valery_gergiev.html (4989 words)

	St. Petersburg White Nights Festival, Conductor Valery Gergiev - Johnson's Russia List 6-23-02
		Valery Gergiev, the high-energy maestro of the Maryinsky Theater, has walked out into the courtyard of the restaurant next door ("The maestro must get some air," says a minion) after hosting a collection of friends at a post-concert dinner.
		Although the performances have drawn raves, Gergiev is modestly calling this a "preparedness year" in which his performers are marshaling their real efforts for next year's gala 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
		Gergiev, who took over the Maryinsky opera in 1988 and was named artistic director of the theater in 1996, said the festival has grown year by year, even when Russia was in decline.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/6322-12.cfm (1121 words)

	Valery Gergiev
		Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow in 1953 to Ossetian parents.
		Whereas the Moscow music scene fell into decay in the post-communist era, Valery Gergiev was able to lead the Mariinsky Theater to the level of the best opera houses in the world.
		Another recent CD by Valery Gergiev, in collaboration with the French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, is dedicated to the Concert for piano op.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo11/gergiev.htm (1502 words)

	Vienna Philharmonic/Valery Gergiev @ Barbican Hall, London \| concert reviews \| musicOMH.com
		Gergiev took beautiful expansive tempos in the first and third movements of Brahms' Symphony No.4 in E minor.
		Gergiev the magician was able to produce great passion, terrific piano passages, real wit (such as with the oboe solo at the end of the second movement in Symphony No.5).
		In spite of Valery Gergiev, for whom every single note continues to be a matter of life and death, the Vienna Philharmonic failed to ignite.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/gergiev-vienna_0906.htm (625 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Tom Service meets the electrifying conductor Valery Gergiev
		The son of an army officer, Gergiev was born in Moscow before the family moved to Vladikavkaz, in the south west of Russia.
		After a fire at the Mariinsky in 2003, Gergiev used the repair of the theatre, which was built in 1860 and boasts one of the most stunning facades and interiors of any opera house in the world, as an excuse to transform operatic life in St Petersburg.
		Gergiev is an astute political operator, the most respected artist in any field in Russia, and revered by the highest echelons of Vladimir Putin's government.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,,1775729,00.html (1892 words)

	Valery Gergiev (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Valery Gergiev opens the door to his temporary New York home – a borrowed flat a stone’s throw from the Metropolitan Opera –; he’s on the telephone.
		According to music critic John Ardoin, author of Valery Gergiev and the Kirov, Gergiev is "probably the most sought-after conductor today under the age of 50." But even with his busy touring schedule (tonight, he leads his Kirov Orchestra at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall), he remains firmly committed to his priorities.
		Gergiev speaks of the chaos brought on by the collapse of communism, when the arts in Russia – traditionally supported by the state – were suddenly cut adrift.
	www.colineatock.com /valery.htm (1265 words)

	Honorary Board: Valery Gergiev
		Valery Gergiev is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, home to the Kirov Opera and Ballet.
		Born in Moscow of Ossetian parents, Valery Gergiev studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory.
		In 1996, the Russian government appointed Valery Gergiev Director of the Mariinsky Theatre.
	www.sprkfv.net /old/ahistory/association/boardvg.html (459 words)

	Valery Gergiev: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valery Gergiev (born 1953) is a Russia Russia quick summary:
		The bavarian state opera (in german: bayerische staatsoper) is an opera company in munich and is one of the leading opera companies in germany....
		Gergiev is particularly renowned for his passionate, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/valery_gergiev.htm (797 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Art, music & theatre - LSO/Valery Gergiev, Barbican, London (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gergiev's Mozart had it, if one ignores a sluggish, not to say soporific minuet in the "Linz" Symphony.
		In the finale Gergiev conducted in the spirit in which we like to think Mozart composed - so relaxed, so minimalist in physical effort, but with a psychic intensity that was overwhelming.
		Gergiev's had the necessary tension in the way he allowed the first movement's tumultuous arcs to accumulate, and the second movement struck a balance between grace and menace.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/aab13036-977e-11da-82b7-0000779e2340.html (342 words)

	The Wild Man Of Music , Valery Gergiev Known As The World's Busiest Maestro - CBS News
		Gergiev says there was one day, one moment, when he changed from a soccer-loving 14 year old to a devotee of music.
		Gergiev is famous for ending rehearsals about the time a performance is supposed to start, while patrons stroll the foyers and musicians roll the dice.
		Gergiev was on time and stone cold sober when he walked from his New York hotel to the Met to preside over opening night - the most coveted and prestigious date on America's musical and social calendar.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/02/20/60minutes/main601421.shtml (1402 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Press Release: KIROV ORCHESTRA PERFORMS WORKS BY RUSSIAN AND FINNISH COMPOSERS ...
		In 1996, Valery Gergiev was named Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, home to the Kirov Opera, the Kirov Ballet and the Kirov Orchestra.
		Gergiev's numerous titles and awards attest to his status as a cultural hero in Russia; recently, he was named People's Artist of Russia by President Vladimir Putin.
		Gergiev has established several festivals, including the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, the Rotterdam Philharmonic's Gergiev Festival, the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, the Peace for the Caucasus Festival, and the Moscow Russian Easter Festival.
	www.laphil.org /press/press_detail.cfm?id=1478&back=/press/press_archive.cfm?ps=1&month=ALL&year=2005; (609 words)

	Valery Gergiev's Many Guises - May 27, 2008 - The New York Sun
		In London, when it was announced in 2005 that Valery Gergiev had been appointed principal conductor — and therefore de facto music director — of the London Symphony, I was able to gauge the reactions of a surprised listening public and critical community.
		Gergiev almost immediately angered his new constituency by stating that now he could conduct the Saturday matinee at the Barbican and still be home in the evening to lead his beloved Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg.
		Gergiev is director of the Kirov Opera at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and also the director of the Kirov Ballet.
	www.nysun.com /arts/valery-gergievs-many-guises/78612 (806 words)

	Baltic Sea Festival Stockholm SR Berwaldhallen
		Valery Abissalovich Gergiev, nicknamed "Valery the Great" has become somewhat of a national hero in Russia because of his efforts in keeping the Mariinskijtheatre afloat following the collapse of the Soviet Union and turning the company into one of the world's finest, equally regarded for it's opera ensemble as for the ballet and the orchestra.
		Valery Gergiev stems from a clan of warriors - the Ossetians, related to the ancient Scythians.
		Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow in 1953 but grew up in Vladikavkaz, Ossetia where he studied piano and music concurrently with his sister Larissa at the local music school which today bears his name.
	www.sr.se /Berwaldhallen/baltic/conductors.stm (1925 words)

	Symposium Participants - Valery Gergiev
		Valery Gergiev, one of the most sought-after directors in the world, became director of the venerable Kirov Opera of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1988 and general director of the Mariinsky’s complete roster of opera, ballet, and orchestral performances in 1996.
		Gergiev’s appointment inaugurated a new period in the history of the Mariinsky opera company.
		Gergiev set an unprecedented tempo for creative activity, adding seven or eight new productions a year to the company’s repertory.
	www.umich.edu /stpetersburg/projecting/program/pop/gergiev.html (144 words)

	Valery Gergiev - Conducting History
		It is 15 years ago this month that Gergiev was elected by company members to lead them into the post-Soviet murk.
		As the Bolshoi subsided into whingeing sloppiness, Gergiev forged Team Kirov, persuading his divas that they would shine better as part of a prestigious touring company than alone in the dollar-driven West.
		Gergiev from the outset embraced cultural exchange as distinct from the money-grabbing cultural parasitism of other Russian companies, who export creaky old Nutcrackers with demotivated casts.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/030528-NL-gergiev.html (1087 words)

	Rotterdam Philharmonic/Valery Gergiev @ Barbican Hall, London \| concert reviews \| musicOMH.com
		Gergiev's knowledge and reading of the score is aided by his clear red-biro markings in his score.
		I would almost have loved Gergiev to conduct this piece too, as the musical discipline of their joint performance was not evident here.
		The precision of the concluding percussion ensemble was hair-raising.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/gergiev-rotterdam_0606.htm (777 words)

	Will the Real Valery Gergiev Stand Up? - April 6, 2005 - The New York Sun
		One Gergiev is intensely perceptive and atavistically inspirational, able to draw extremely passionate playing out of his instrumental and vocal forces and summon dazzlingly new vitality out of old scores.
		Gergiev launched the featured work of the evening, the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Here the conductor was in his element: With his short attention span, he is much more effective in an episodic piece than a sustained one.
		Maestro Gergiev was let down three separate times by poor brass solos and completely lost control of his unhatched chicks: the winds at one tempo and the strings at another.
	www.nysun.com /arts/will-the-real-valery-gergiev-stand-up/11795 (890 words)

	DVD-Audio Review: Kirov Orchestra (Gergiev) - ‘Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 Pathetique’
		Philips’ recent DVD-Audio release of Valery Gergiev’s 1995 recording of this work puts it in strong competition with the many fine versions of this piece released in the last seventy years, and leaves it as the best current surround sound choice.
		Valery Gergiev has become a high-profile conductor in recent years on the strength of his passionate volatility, not to mention his workaholic schedule leading a huge number of concerts per year.
		Gergiev manages the not inconsiderable feat of keeping the movement fleet-footed, while at the same time twirling with a lovely, longing grace.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=14394207 (4911 words)

	Valery Gergiev at The White Nights Festival
		The striking – but characteristic – aspect of Valery Gergiev, artistic director of the St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky and the White Nights Festival alike, is that he agrees to talk at all at such a moment, when you might have thought he was engaged in deep concentration on the musical challenges ahead of him.
		Gergiev’s new variant of the The Nutcracker, first performed last year and notably in May when George W. Bush came to town, does not suffer from a little extra length and musical content.
		But in general Gergiev is to be commended for his desire to opt for a constantly changing programme of less well-known works, interpreted by fresh talent.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/intervie/gergiev.html (1027 words)

	Artist page for Valery Gergiev - Wal-mart
		Conductor Valery Gergiev was born in Moscow on September 21, 1953, to Ossetian parents.
		Gergiev was promoted to music director at the Kirov Opera in 1988 when Temirkanov left to assume the directorship of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
		Gergiev is the organizer and artistic director of St. Petersburg's Stars of the White Nights Festival, which features a variety of international guest artists and is held annually at the Mariinsky Theatre.
	www.walmart.com /cdstore/ArtistInfo.do?artistId=24499 (484 words)

	Valery Gergiev: Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherezade - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of all the conductors who were trained in the last days of the Soviet Union, Valery Gergiev is surely the hottest.
		Nor have Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra slighted the symphonic repertoire.
		In Shéhérazade, Gergiev stresses the extravagant color and explosive movement of the score and finds the dramatic structure of the work in its balletic forms.
	www.yourmusic.com /?tc=00YM51945&success=/browse/album/48536.html (321 words)

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