Yuri Temirkanov (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov (Russian: ) (born 10 December 1938) is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin. Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988. Born in 1938 in the Caucasus city of Nalchik, Temirkanov began his musical studies at the age of nine. When he was thirteen, he attended the Leningrad School for Talented Children where he continued his studies in violin and viola. Upon graduation from the Leningrad School, he attended the Leningrad Conservatory where he completed his studies in viola. He returned to the Conservatory to study conducting with the legendary Ilya Musin and graduated in 1965.