Teodor Currentzis is the founder and artistic director of Utopia (orchestra and choir) and artistic director of musicAeterna (orchestra and choir). From 2018 to 2024 he was chief conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart.
He began his musical studies in his home country of Greece, and in 1994 entered the St Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied with Ilya Musin.
Teodor Currentzis regularly tours Europe and worldwide with his ensembles, performing in numerous renowned concert halls such as the Philharmonies of Berlin, Munich and Cologne, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and La Scala, Milan.
He has also performed at major opera houses such as the Paris Opéra, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and regularly appears at the Salzburg Festival, the Ruhrtriennale and the festivals of Lucerne and Aix-en-Provence. Directors with whom he has collaborated include Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Peter Sellars, Dmitri Tcherniakov and Theodoros Terzopoulos.
Teodor Currentzis has recorded works by Mozart, Mahler, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rameau and Stravinsky for Sony Classical. His recordings have won numerous international awards such as the Echo Klassik, the Edison Klassiek, the Japan Record Award and the Opera Award of BBC Music Magazine. He received the prestigious Kairos Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, and has also been awarded the Greek Order of the Phoenix and the international Musikfest Bremen Prize.
In 2024 Teodor Currentzis founded his own CD label Theta in collaboration with Outhere Music. The label is named after the letter Θ (Theta), in reference to his Greek origins, and aims to record the extensive repertory which Currentzis performs with his various ensembles, above all Utopia. The label’s first recordings — of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and Mahler’s Third Symphony — will both be released in 2025 and were recorded at the Berlin Funkhaus, which is known for its exceptional acoustics and where Utopia is a resident orchestra.
