HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAESTRO!!

Evgeny Kissin

Happy  anniversary,  dear Yuri Khatuevich !  You  are  an outstanding    musician and a wonderful   person, and I am  most fortunate   that kind  destiny awarded  me  your   friendship. I  wish  you many long and  happy years, excellent health, creative   inspiration  and  an active musical life  which will continue   to  bring delight  to  all  those   who  love  and  value  your  art!
Zhenia

 

Yo-Yo Ma

Dearest Yuri,
Carrier and explorer of so many currents and traditions, living and reliving, enacting and re-enacting the musical dramas of our era, devoted to finding places in our hearts for the souls that the coded language of notation evokes, I salute you on your birthday and join your colleagues, friends and family in sending love, admiration and gratitude.
Yo-Yo

 
Marta Argerich

Yuri Temirkanov is for me a magician, he transforms the sound of any orchestra, it is incredibly inspiring and a great joy to play with him and to see him exist. I am so happy to celebrate your birthday, dear,dear Yuri!
WITH ALL MY LOVE, MARTHA

 

Maxim Shostakovich

It is  with great  joy and from all my  heart that I congratulate you, my  dear Yura Temirkanov on your splendid  birthday jubilee.  We   have been connected  for  many long years by a warm  friendship  and numerous creative  contacts. During these festive  days, Yura’s  wonderful  readings of my never-to-be forgotten father’s  works  resurface in my memory, and this  warms my  heart, filling it  with  deep  gratitude.
With love
M. Shostakovich  

 

Giya Kancheli

Dear Yura,
Your  shortening my  work by 7  minutes  without  my prior  agreement   I   consider  to  be nothing less  than a demonstration of  your  infinite love  for me and for my music.  For my  part I  wish  to  assert:  you,  it would  seem,   are   the  only  person  that I can  not only forgive  for such  a deed, but also   to  whom I  am  actually  grateful!
Firstly, because  the   shortening  of   my  piece actually  benefited  the  overall  compositional concept . And  secondly,  evcn if  this  was  not the  case , I  am   absolutely  convinced  that  thanks,  once   again   to your irresistible  charm, my   reputation as  a  composer has   been  enhanced.
I  congratulate  you,  embrace  you  and  offer  you   the  exclusive  right   to   interpret my  music as   you  please.
Your  Giya

 

Eliso Virsaldaze 

Dear Yura,
I  wish  you from all my  heart   health and happiness, and many  more   years of inspired music making. I  have  had  the  good  fortune    to  enjoy  your  matchless artistry for  the last 40   years,  both as  a  participant  in your   concerts and  as  a listener. The  impressions left by  your  extraordinary productions of Tchaikovsky’s “Evgeny Onegin” and “Queen of  Spades”  remain with me as  vividly as  ever,  and  it  is my fervent wish  that you  may be   tempted to return to opera once  again to  your  brilliant double role of   producer and   conductor.
Yours   with   ever continuing friendship,
Eliso