Today the Greek Teodor Currentzis is one of the most demanded conductors in Russia. An original, romantic descendant of a famous family of Byzantine aristocrats, Theodore leafs through an album with personal photographs and talks about how an Athenian youth became the chief conductor of Siberia.
Teodor Kurentzis 37 years. Born in Athens, at the age of 12 he entered the Greek Conservatory. Since 1994 lives in Russia. He has worked at the Helikon Opera, the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Opera of Paris and others. Since 2004 he has been chief conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he created the authentic chamber orchestra Musica Aeterna and The New Siberian Singers choir.
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“A person who is looking for himself – what he should really be, and not what others want him to see, or even myself. A sinner who really wants to serve the light. This is only partially achieved so far, because when you are sure that you are serving the light, in fact you are serving the darkness. Lonely, hyper-romantic. A person who still asks and doubts. The one who recognizes familiar chords when helpless silence screams. The imprisoned robber in the monastery of the beautiful.” “We retained lofty feelings.” “The story of that love was unusual, very difficult. We’ve been through things together that others only read about in novels. We traveled a lot, in some kind of wagons, caravans with gypsies, met at the cemetery … We loved each other very much and promised that we would part at the peak of our relationship in order to maintain elevated feelings. This is what happened in 1992. Now she is a psychiatrist. These wounds are incurable, but they ooze myrrh when Mahler’s music resounds in the darkness; you see how a heart of glass appears in the darkness, on which is written: “Theodore was here!” Losing my first love taught me how to be an artist. Love is a path from wound to wound… You go to music to find compassion. It is available only to gourmets, to those who do not want to quickly heal their wounds, which help to create.
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- Vladimir Eshtokin