Andriy Yurkevych was born in Zboriv (Ukraine) and graduated in orchestral
conducting in 1999 from the Lysenko Music Academy in Lviv under the
guidance of Yuriy Lutsiv. He later specialized at the Wielki National
Theatre in Warsaw with Jacek Kaspszyk, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
in Siena with Gianluigi Gelmetti, and in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He
received a special prize at the National Turchak Competition in Kyiv.
In 1996, he was appointed resident conductor at the Kruscelnytska
National Opera in Lviv, where he made his debut in various operas
including Aida, Nabucco, Il Trovatore, La
Traviata, Rigoletto, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly,
Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Carmen,
Die Fledermaus, Der Zigeunerbaron, and Die Lustige
Witwe. Among the ballets he conducted are The Nutcracker, Swan
Lake, La Bayadère, and Coppélia.
Andriy Yurkevych has also served as General Music Director of the
National Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau,
Music Director of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and Music Director
of the National Theatre in Odessa. As Music Director of the Polish
National Opera in Warsaw, he conducted Evgenij Onegin, Nabucco,
Maria Stuarda, Guillaume Tell, Roméo et Juliette, Anna
Bolena, Norma, Madama Butterfly, a new production of
Moniuszko’s Il maniero spaventoso, and Il Turco in Italia.
He was invited to the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca for
Marchetti’s Romeo e Giulietta and for numerous symphonic concerts.
After his debut on the podium of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in 2005, he returned to Rome for The
Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, again for Swan Lake, and
conducted Falstaff (a production by Franco Zeffirelli) for the
opening night of the 2010/11 season.
Among his many collaborations are: La fille du régiment and Rigoletto
at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile and in San Francisco; Il
Barbiere di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Il viaggio a
Reims at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo; La forza del destino and
Boris Godunov at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels; Pique
Dame at Theater St. Gallen; I Puritani at the Greek National
Opera in Athens; Maria Stuarda at 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 Pagliacci in Moldova. He has also
conducted Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice and Cologne; Swan
Lake and Anna Bolena at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Norma in Palermo; Evgenij Onegin, La
Traviata and Macbeth in Gdansk; Roberto Devereux in
Zurich and Madrid; Aida in Riga; Lucrezia Borgia in
Berlin; Pique Dame, Der Fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto
and Madama Butterfly in Warsaw; Anna Bolena in Budapest
and Kosice; Norma and Roberto Devereux at the Wiener
Staatsoper; Pique Dame in Chisinau; Lucia di Lammermoor in
Budapest; Turandot in Santiago de Chile and symphonic concerts at
Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and in Milan with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi
Musicali.
He has enjoyed a long and fruitful collaboration with world-renowned
soprano Edita Gruberova, conducting Norma in Berlin, Mannheim, and
Duisburg; Lucrezia Borgia at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in
Dortmund, Dresden, and Cologne; and several concerts in Munich
(Herkulessaal), Vienna, and Frankfurt.
Also active on the concert stage, Andriy Yurkevych regularly conducts a
wide symphonic repertoire.
Among his most recent engagements are a new production of Don Carlo
in Düsseldorf; Le Duc d'Albe in Ghent; Simon Boccanegra in
Genoa and Bologna; Lucrezia Borgia in Tenerife, Budapest and
Bologna; Lucia di Lammermoor in Darmstadt, Verona, and Nice; Evgenij
Onegin, La Traviata at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Pagliacci
in Genoa; Dvořák’s Requiem and La Traviata in Chisinau;
Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in Pécs and Budapest; Madama Butterfly
in Nice and La Sonnambula, Rigoletto in Stuttgart and
Warsaw.
His engagements for the 2025-26 season include: Il Trovatore at
Teatro delle Muse in Ancona; Lucia di Lammermoor (in concert
version) in Ghent and Antwerp; La Traviata in Bergen and Werther
in Tokyo.
September 2025