帕维尔·柯岗,著名指挥家。前苏联小提琴大师列奥尼德柯岗之子。
柯岗出生于俄国艺术世家,父亲列奥尼德·柯岗是位举世闻名的小提琴家,母亲伊丽莎白·吉列尔斯也是著名的小提琴家。柯岗年轻时在莫斯科中央音乐学校和莫斯科音乐学院学习,专攻小提琴和交响乐指挥。
1970年,柯岗十八岁时荣获赫尔辛基西贝柳斯国际小提琴演奏大奖。作为乐坛新崛起的小提琴新星,柯岗在欧洲、日本、美国等地知名乐团客座演出,其中包括费城管弦乐团和洛杉矶爱乐乐团。
不久后,他将重点转向乐队指挥。1974年,他与列宁格勒爱乐乐团合作,首次作为指挥登台表演。之后,他指挥过日本、美国、俄国、欧洲等多家一流乐团,并成为赫尔辛基、杜布罗夫尼克、布拉格、蒙特勒等地交响音乐节备受欢迎的指挥家。1988年至1990年,柯岗担任了萨格勒布爱乐乐团的首席指挥。
除了交响乐,柯岗的身影也时常出现在歌剧的指挥舞台上。1989年,他在莫斯科成功指挥了威尔第的《茶花女》。1990年,他应邀出任莫斯科国家交响乐团音乐指导,十五年来,成绩显著。在他的引领下,乐团迅速扩大了演奏曲目范围,不仅表演传统俄国音乐,同时也演奏十九世纪和二十世纪德国、美国、
澳大利亚、法国作曲家的作品。1996年秋季,乐团表演了全套马勒交响套曲,赢得音乐界喝彩。
五年前,柯岗率领莫斯科国家交响乐团在美国进行了全国访问演出,并在纽约林肯中心表演。评论家赞道:“莫斯科交响乐团技巧精湛、表演生动、充满活力。指挥柯岗充分发挥了乐队的高水准表演能力,他那丰富强烈的感染力,深深打动了整个乐队和听众”。
Pavel Leonidovich Kogan (Коган, Павел Леонидович) (Moscow, 6 June 1952) is a Russian violinist and conductor who currently leads the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.
Maestro Pavel Kogan's career has spanned over 40 years and five continents and has led him to becoming one of the most respected and widely known Russian conductors of our time. In 2011 Kogan's name went into the list of ten greatest conductors of the 20th century, made by an authoritative British classical TV channel.
He was born into a distinguished musical family – his parents are legendary violinists Leonid Kogan and Elizaveta Gilels and his uncle is the inimitable pianist Emil Gilels. From an early age Kogan’s artistic development was divided between conducting and violin. He was granted special permission to study both disciplines at the same time which was an extreme rarity in the Soviet Union. In 1970 eighteen-year-old Pavel Kogan, a violin pupil of Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatory, won 1st prize in the Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki. Thereafter he appeared regularly as a violinist in concerts around the world. In 2010 a panel of judges has been elected to decide on the best conqueror in the competition’s 45-years history for the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. And by unanimous resolution of the jury Kogan was named the absolute winner.
As a conducting pupil of Ilya Musin and Leo Ginsburg, in 1972 the young Kogan gave his debut with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and subsequently focused more on conducting. In the years that followed he conducted the leading Soviet orchestras both at home and on tour abroad at the invitation of Mravinsky, Kondrashin, Svetlanov and Rozhdestvensky. In 1988, as a conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, Kogan opened the season with a new production of Verdi’s La Traviata. That same year he became the head of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.
Since 1989 Pavel Kogan has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the eminent Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MSSO), building it into one of Russia’s most widely known and highly acclaimed orchestras.
From 1998-2005 he served as principal guest conductor of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.
Kogan appeared with many prominent orchestras including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de France, Houston Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Pavel Kogan has recorded countless works with the MSSO and other ensembles, which became a major contribution to the world’s musical culture. Many of his albums have garnered great acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Gramophone called Kogan’s Rachmaninoff cycle (Symphonies 1, 2, 3, Symphonic Dances, “Isle of the Dead,” “Vocalize & Scherzo”) “…sparkly, strongly communicative Rachmaninoff... vibrant, soulful and involving.” Kogan was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his performance of the complete symphonies and vocal cycles of Gustav Mahler. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts and recipient of the “Order of Merit” of Russia and of the title “Peoples’ Artist of Russia” among other Russian and overseas awards.