The internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev enjoys close relationships with the world’s most prestigious orchestras. He has conducted the Vienna Philharmonic on several international tours, in the orchestra’s Summer Night concert at Schönbrunn and in the gala concert to celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss. Their co-operation continues in 2026 with their return to the Salzburg Festival and a European tour. In 2027 Tugan Sokhiev will conduct the orchestra’s famous New Year’s Concert.
Highlights of the 2026/27 season will include his returns to the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. In November 2026 he will return to Japan to conduct the NHK Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its 100th anniversary.
In 2025, Tugan Sokhiev was named principal conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. During his time as music director of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (2008—22) he helped to bring the orchestra to international acclaim.
He has also appeared with leading US orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.
Also dedicated to the operatic repertory, from 2014 to 2022 he was music director at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and in recent seasons he has conducted acclaimed new productions of Iolanta at the Vienna State Opera and Tannhäuser at the Zurich Opera.
His award-winning discography includes recordings with the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic (also featured on its Digital Concert Hall). His most recent CD is a live recording of Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He also enjoys a close collaboration with Philharmonic Brass, conducted the ensemble on its first recording and in many acclaimed concerts and is a patron of the ensemble’s education programme.
One of the last pupils of the legendary Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory, Tugan Sokhiev is a committed pedagogue and in 2016 founded the International Conducting Academy in Toulouse. He also works with the young musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic’s Angelika Prokopp Sommerakademie and with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Academy. Alongside his concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Easter Festival, he also conducted the orchestra’s amateur Be Phil Orchestra.
