Serge dorny biography

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Serge Dorny was born in Wevelgem in Belgium and studied art history, archaeology, musicology, and communication at the University of Ghent and music at the.
Serge Dorny studied music at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and history of art, archaeology, musicology, and communication sciences at Ghent University.

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Serge Poliakoff Biography

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Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow on the 21st of January 1900. His Father, Georges Nicolaévitch Poliakoff, was a horse breeder of Kyrgyz origin. During a stay in Toula, Georges Poliakoff met Agrippine Stroukoff, the daughter of landowners and granddaughter of the General Stroukoff. The couple got married after George kidnaped her by horse. They had fourteen children, Serge being the thirteenth one. The family, very united, lived in Moscow, where his father was a horse supplier for the Russian army and owned a racing stable. One of his sisters, Vera, much older than Poliakoff, widow of the Moscow police commissioner Volossovski, was particularly found of Serge. From a very young age, Poliakoff was influenced by Vera’s personality. Another one of his older sisters was married to Prince Galitzine and lived in Saint-Petersbourg. Serge Poliakoff often visited them.

He started to take drawing lessons in Moscow. He spent his holidays in Naltchik, at his brother-in-law

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Serge Dorny

Serge Dorny was born in Wevelgem in Belgium. He began his theatre career in the dramaturge team under Gerard Mortier at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, moving from here to the Festival of Flanders, where was appointed Artistic Director in 1987. He revitalised the festival programme with a new repertoire and an innovative offering of baroque and contemporary, invited big, significant orchestras and engaged a series of conductors starting out on their careers, among them Iván Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen, for example.

He was appointed General Director and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1996, where he corrected the financial situation and re-established the orchestra’s artistic excellence. Kurt Masur was made Principal Conductor and Vladimir Jurowski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor, and the cooperation with Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons and Wolfgang Sawallisch was intensified.

Serge Dorny has pursued an innovative artistic policy since his appointment as General Director of the Opéra national

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Dresden update: Serge Dorny was ‘acting like the Sun King’

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February 25, 2014

The Saxon arts minister Minister Sabine von Schorlemer held a press conference today with the Staatskapelle music director Christian Thielemann in an attempt to dispel any confusion over her sacking of the Semper Oper director, Serge Dorny.

The minister said Dorny had emailed her with a long list of changes he wanted to make – to the company’s logo, marketing, the programming of the Staatskapelle, and more. In the email, he apparently threatened to resign if his demands were not met. When no agreement could be reached with him, the minister said, Dorny was given notice.

‘I would have preferred it if the affair could have been settled quietly and in mutual agreement. But that was impossible after the last meeting which I don’t want to go into further,’ said von Schorlemer.

She added that working with Dorny had proved more difficult that envisaged and that he had spoken badly of Semper employees.

Thielemann said that relations