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Andriy
Yurkevych, born in Zboriv (Ukraine), graduated in Orchestral Conducting
in 1999 at the Lyssenko Musical Academy of Lviv, under the guidance of
Yuriy Lutsiv. He then specialized at the National Theatre Wielki in
Warsaw with Jacek Kaspszyk and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in
Siena (Italy) with Gianluigi Gelmetti, in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He
was awarded a special prize at the Turchak National Competition in Kiev.
From 2022 he was appointed music director at the Prague National Opera
and has since conducted operas, as well as symphonic concerts, such as:
La Traviata, Tosca, Aida, La Boheme, Romeo and Juliette, Madama
Butterfly, Macbeth, Cavalleria Rusticana&Pagliacci.
Since 1996, he has been resident conductor at the National Opera
Kruscelnytska in Lviv, where he made his debut in several operas, such
as: Aida; Nabucco; Il Trovatore; La Traviata; Rigoletto; Otello; La
Bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Cavalleria rusticana; I Pagliacci;
Carmen; Die Fledermaus; Der Zigeunerbaron; Die Lustige Witwe; and
several operas from the Russian repertoire. Among ballets he led: The
Nutcracker; The Swan Lake; La Bayadère; and Coppélia. Andry Yurkevych is
Chief Conductor at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic
of Moldova in Chisinau, and he was music director at the Polish National
Opera, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw.
Yurkevych
also served as Music Director of the National Theatre in Odessa and as
General Music Conductor at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of
Republic of Moldova in Chisinau. As Music Director at the Polish
National Opera (Teatr Wielki) in Warsaw, he recently conducted:
Evgenij Onegin, Nabucco, Maria Stuarda, Guillaume Tell, Romeo e
Giulietta, Anna Bolena, Norma, Madama Butterfly, a new production of
Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor; Die Zauberflöte, Norma (concert
version), Il Turco in Italia.He was invited to the Festival
della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca (Italy) for Marchetti’s Romeo e
Giulietta and numerous symphonic concerts. After his debut on the podium
of the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Tchaikovsky’s The Swan
Lake in 2005, he returned to Rome in Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and
The Swann Lake. In Rome, he also conducted Falstaff for the opening
night of the 2010/11 season.
His numerous collaborations include: La fille du regiment and
Rigoletto at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile) and in San
Francisco; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Il
viaggio a Reims at the Opéra de Montecarlo; La forza del destino and
Boris Godunov at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles; The Pique
Dame at the Theater St. Gallen; I Puritani at the Greek National Opera
in Athens; Maria Stuarda at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Il
Barbiere di Siviglia in Stuttgart; Evgenij Onegin in Düsseldorf; Roberto
Devereux in Mannheim; La Bohème in Liège; Anna Bolena in Barcelona;
Evgenij Onegin and Roberto Devereux in Warsaw and I Pagliacci in
Moldova.
Mr. Yurkevych enjoys a continuous and successful collaboration with the
world famous soprano Edita Gruberova, conducting: Norma in Berlino
Mannheim and Duisburg; Lucrezia Borgia at the Klangvokal Musikfestival
in Dortmund, Dresden and Köln and several concerts in Munich
(Herkulessaal), Vienna and Frankfurt.
Mr. Yurkevych also conducted: Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice and
Köln; The Swan Lake, Anna Bolena at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Norma in Palermo; Evgenij Onegin, La Traviata and
Macbeth in Gdansk; Roberto Devereux in Zürich and
Madrid; Aida in Riga; Lucrezia Borgia in Berlin; The Pique
Dame, Der Fliegende Hollaender, Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly in
Warsaw; Anna Bolena in Budapest and Kosice; Norma and Roberto Devereux
in Vienna (Staatsoper); The Queen of Spades in Chisinau; Lucia di
Lammermoor in Budapest; Turandot in Santiago de Chile and symphonic
concerts at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and in Milan with I
Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra.
Active also on the concert side, Andriy Yurkevych has a wide symphonic
repertoire, particularly focused on composers such as Tchaikovsky,
Rimskij-Korsakov, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich.
Recent engagements include a new production of Don Carlo in Düsseldorf;
Le Duc d'Albe in Gent; Simon Boccanegra in Genoa and in Bologna;
Lucrezia Borgia in Tenerife, Budapest, Pecs and Bologna; Lucia di
Lammermoor in Darmstadt, Verona and Nice; Evgenij Onegin, La Traviata,
Le Rossignol and Iolanta at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Pagliacci
in Genoa; Dvorak's Requiem and La Traviata in Chinisau; Petite Messe
Solennelle; Mahler's Second Symphony in Lodz; Madama Butterfly in Nice
Upcoming engagements include: La Sonnambula and Rigoletto in Stuttgart;
Werther at the National Theatre in Tokyo.
May 2024