Michail Jurowski was the permanent conductor at the Semperoper Dresden, Chief conductor of the Leipzig Opera, regular guest at the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, regular guest conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, first guest conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, chief conductor of the WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne.

In 1993 Jurowski also conducted Sir Peter Ustinov's production of Tchaikovsky's Jolanthe and Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini at the Dresden Music Festival. Both productions were recorded by German TV station ARD and were shown at the Rimini Festival.

Beside concerts in television and radio recordings in Stuttgart, Cologne, Dresden and Berlin, Jurowski conducted various CD recordings, including film music, Shostakovich's The Gamblers, and Shostakovich's entire vocal symphonic pieces, Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Christmas Eve, as well as orchestral pieces by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Reznicek, Meyerbeer, Lehár, Kálmán, Nicolai, Rangström, Pettersen-Berger, Grieg, Svensen, Kantcheli, among others.

Michail Jurowski won the German Record Critics' Prize (twice, in 1992 and 1996) and received a Grammy nomination for 3 CD productions of Orchestral Music by Rimsky-Korsakov with the RSB Orchestra (2001).

Recent engagements include Twilight of the Gods in Dortmund, Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty at Norske Opera, Oslo, Eugene Onegin at Teatro Lirico, Cagliari, Respighi's Marie Victoire and the revival of Un Ballo in Maschera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others in Genoa, Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia.

He also performed at the Dresden Philharmonie, and conducted the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphonic Orchestra, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria, among others.

Upcoming opera engagements include a new production of Wagner's Rienzi and Ottorino Respighi's Marie Victoire (both at Deutsche Oper Berlin), Glazunov's Raymonda (Opernhaus Zürich), Tchaikovsky's Evgeny Onegin (Lisboa), and J.Strauss' Die Fledermaus (Bologna), among others.

Upcoming concert engagements include concerts with Tonkünstler Orchester (Vienna Musikverein, Torino, Porto), the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphonic Orchestra, the RAI Orchestra (Torino), the Dresdner Philharmonic, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (Groningen), just to name a few.