Teodor Currentzis

Teodor Currentzis is a Greek-Russian conductor famed for the unorthodox operatic interpretations he has issued from the relatively remote cities of Novosibirsk and Perm. The Guardian has called him "the conducting equivalent of Glenn Gould morphed with Kurt Cobain." Born in Athens in 1972, Currentzis studied piano and violin as a child. A prodigy, he entered Greece's National Conservatory at 12, as a violinist, switching to composition several years later. In the 1994 he moved to Russia and began studying conducting with the nonagenarian Ilya Musin at the State Conservatory i...