Key facts of his career
Honorary doctor of 40 of the world's leading universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, the Sorbonne and others, and an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts of France (among the "Forty Immortals"). He first performed in concert in Gorky in 1962. It was there that his conducting career also began. For many years he took part in the "Contemporary Music" festival. Nizhny Novgorod residents remember his visits to our city with D. Shostakovich.
Charity
In 1996, at his initiative, construction began on a hospital in Vacha. In the summer of 1998, during the days of the 5th Sakharov Festival, he performed at the concert hall of the Nizhny Novgorod Academic Philharmonic and at the Federal Nuclear Center (the city of city of Sarov). He again visited Vacha, where, with the assistance of an American pharmaceutical company, new water-purification equipment was installed. His new project is connected with the creation of a Foundation for the Support of Young Talents of Nizhny Novgorod Region.