Among upcoming debuts of Russian, currently German based conductor Valentin Uryupin - Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, New National Theatre Tokyo. He also returns to conduct Rundfunk- Symphonieorchester Berlin, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and Frankfurt opera.
Valentin Uryupin is an exceptional musician in two respects: before he stepped on the conductor's podium, he won more than 20 international competitions as a clarinettist and performed as a soloist worldwide with such orchestras as Munich Chamber Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Beijing Philharmonic and many others, under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Teodor Currentzis, Maxim Emelyanachev, Jon Storgards and Howard Griffits.