Andriy Yurkevych
Conductor

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