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.

Filmography

• 2026Carmen: Salzburger Festspiele 2026 — Music Director
• 2026DAU — Dau
• 2025Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2024Britten: War Requiem — Orchestrator
• 2022Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2021Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2021Salzburg Festival 2021: Currentzis conducts Mozart — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2020DAU. Cinema — Dau
• 2020DAU. Katya Tanya — Dau
• 2020DAU. Nora Mother — Dau
• 2020DAU. String Theory — Dau
• 2020DAU. The Empire. Novel One: Return Of The Prodigal Son — Dau
• 2020DAU. Three Days — Dau
• 2020Fragments Part I – “Traviata” – Act III: Preludio, scena e aria — Conductor
• 2019Verdi: Messa da Requiem — Conductor, Music Director
• 2017Mozart: La clemenza di Tito — Conductor
• 2017Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626 — Conductor
• 2016Verdi: La Traviata — Conductor, Music Director
• 2015Hypothetically Murdered — Conductor
• 2014Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Shostakovich & Britten (Klara Festival 2013) — Conductor
• 2012Alban Berg: Wozzeck — Conductor
• 2012Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2012Purcell: The Indian Queen — Self – Conductor, Music Director
• 2012Stravinsky's Perséphone — Conductor
• 2009Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris — Conductor

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2026Junkies of Dreaming — Self
• 2026Teodor Currentzis conducts Brahms and Mahler — Self – Conductor
• 2023Lenechka — himself
• 2022Teodor Currentzis: Utopia — Self – Conductor
• 2021Mahler: Symphony No. 5 — Self – Conductor
• 2021Mozart: Don Giovanni — Self – Conductor
• 2021What Beat You Nothing — Self
• 2020Beethoven’s Ninth: Symphony for the World — Self
• 2020Jedermann auf der Weltbühne – 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele — Self
• 2019A Shroud of Incense — himself
• 2019Currentzis. Principle Of Passion — himself
• 2019Mozart: Idomeneo — Self – Conductor
• 2018The Language of Our Dreams – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis — Self
• 2016Currentzis – The Classical Rebel — Self
• 2015Conduction — Self
• 2015Mendelssohns Violinkonzert – Schönheit ist ein Verbrechen — Self
• 2015Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger — Self - Conductor
• Kunscht! — Self
• aspekte — Self