Teodor Currentzis

Biography

Teodor Currentzis is a Greek-Russian conductor and musician. He was Chief Conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra from 2018 to 2024 and is Artistic Director of the ensemble musicAeterna and the Utopia orchestra and choir. Outside of music, in 2009, Currentzis acted in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film Dau based on the biography of the physicist Lev Landau.

Known For

DAU. Katya Tanya

Dau

DAU. Nora Mother

Dau

DAU. String Theory

Dau

DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son

Dau

DAU. Three Days

Dau

Beethovens Neunte - Symphonie für die Welt

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau	Self – Conductor
2023	Lenechka	himself
2022	Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9	Self – Conductor
2022	Teodor Currentzis: Utopia	Self – Conductor
2021	What Beat You Nothing	Self
2021	Mozart: Don Giovanni	Self – Conductor
2021	Beethoven: Symphony No. 7	Self – Conductor
2021	Mahler: Symphony No. 5	Self – Conductor
2021	Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart	Self – Conductor
2020	Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele	Self
2020	DAU. Three Days	Dau
2020	DAU. Nora Mother	Dau
2020	DAU. Katya Tanya	Dau
2020	DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son	Dau
2020	DAU. String Theory	Dau
2020	Beethovens Neunte - Symphonie für die Welt	Self
2020	Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria	Conductor
2019	Currentzis. Principle Of Passion	himself
2019	Verdi: Messa da Requiem	Conductor
2019	Mozart: Idomeneo	Self – Conductor
2019	A Shroud of Incense	himself
2018	The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis	Self
2018	DAU. Cinema	Dau
2016	Currentzis – The Classical Rebel	Self
2015	Conduction	Self
2015	Mendelssohns Violinkonzert – Schönheit ist ein Verbrechen	Self
2015	Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger	Self – Conductor
2014	Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013)	Conductor
2012	Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real	Self – Conductor
2012	Purcell: The Indian Queen	Self – Conductor

Year	TV Show	Role
2014	Kunscht!	Self
1965	aspekte	Self