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Conductor

Azim Karimov

Conductor and Musical Assistant to the General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski at the Bayerische Staatsoper

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Alex Grigorev
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Adrian Lavía
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Olga Izak
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Worldwide , excluding the territory of the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Uzbekistan.


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Upcoming Past
Apr 2025
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Dietrich W. Hilsdorf, Stage Director

Jun 2025
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Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
David Hermann, Stage Director

Jun 2025
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Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
David Hermann, Stage Director

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Mar 2025
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Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
Barrie Kosky, Stage Director

Nov 2024
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Tobias Kratzer , Stage Director

Nov 2024
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Tobias Kratzer , Stage Director

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Biography Highlights

 
 

Upcoming & Recent

Tosca at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and The Nutcracker at the Bayerische Staatsoper; debut with The Passenger at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Eugene Onegin at the Norwegian National Opera and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. New productions of Don Giovanni, The Night before Christmas, and Wagner’s new Ring Cycle as an Assistant and Cover Conductor of Vladimir Jurowski at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Azim Karimov´s recent and future engagements include the recording of Peter and the Wolf with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, concert in the Münchner Opernfestspiele with Bayerisches Staatsorchester and Bayerischer Staatsopernchor in addition with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
 
 

 
 

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The new productions of War and Peace, Die Fledermaus, The Nose and The Passenger at the Bayerische Staatsoper as an Assistant and Cover Conductor of Vladimir Jurowski. Weber’s Missa Sancta Nr.1 at the Münchner Opernfestspiele with Bayerisches Staatsorchester and Bayerischer Staatsopernchor.

As a musical director, Azim led the Moscow premiere of Britten’s opera-parable Curlew River and the world premiere of Besogonov’s The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl at the International Diaghilev Festival. He also conducted Stravinsky’s Mavra and opera-ballet Renard. His opera collaborations included engagements with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Novaya Opera, Opéra de Lyon, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence among others.

In the symphonic field, Karimov has served as Chief Conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra ‘Entre Nous’ and the Moscow State Slobodkin Chamber Orchestra, as well as an appointed Chief Conductor of the 26th Kyoto International Music Festival. In 2020-2022 he held the position of Conductor of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and also successfully collaborated with the major orchestras in Moscow, such as the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Studio for New Music.

 
 

Stage Photos

 

Aram Khachaturian — Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet Spartacus

Aram Khachaturian — Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet Spartacus

Edvard Grieg — Lyric Suite

Edvard Grieg — Lyric Suite

S. Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

S. Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

Tchaikovsky || Eugene Onegin - Waltz

Tchaikovsky || Eugene Onegin - Waltz