Andriy Yurkevych - conductor

While a student he started working as a conductor at the State Liric Opera and Ballet Theatre in Lviv where he performed operas of the Russian and Italian repertoire along with operettas and ballets. After his debut at Opera in Rome he earned an impressive reputation at international level with many invitations at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile), the Greek National Opera and the San Francisco Opera. Mr. Yurkevych enjoys a continuous and successful collaboration with the world famous soprano Edita Gruberova, working with her in the following productions: Norma in Berlin Mannheim and Duisburg; Lucrezia Borgia at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund, Dresden and Köln; several concerts in Munich (Herkulessaal), Vienna and Frankfurt. Mr. Yurkevych lately conducted: Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice and Cologne; The Swan Lake, Anna Bolena and Il Mago di Oz at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; Norma in Palermo; Evgenij Onegin and Macbeth in Gdansk; The Pique Dame, Der Fliegende Holländer and Rigoletto in Warsaw; Roberto Devereux in Zürich and Madrid; Aida in Riga. In Berlin he recently conducted L’Elisir d’Amore (Staatsoper) and Anna Bolena (Deutsche Oper).

Active also on the symphonic field, he boasts a repertoire that spans from Mozart to the main Russian composers, such as Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich.

Mr. Yurkevych also served as Music Director of the National Theatre in Odessa.

His upcoming projects include: Roberto Devereux and Anna Bolena in Zurich; Madama Butterfly in Warsaw; Norma, Roberto Devereux and Anna Bolena at the Wiener Staatsoper; Turandot in Santiago de Chile; Giselle in Florence; and a series of concerts with the Münchner Symphoniker in Munich and Udine, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid and with the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan.