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, conducting: Norma in Berlin 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 lately conducted: Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice and Koln; 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 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 Tchaikovsky, Rimski-Korsakov, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Shostankovich.

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

His upcoming projects include: Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux in Zurich; Anna Bolena in Budapest; Madama Butterfly in Warsaw; Norma, Roberto Devereux at the Wiener Staatsoper; Turandot in Santiago de Chile; revivals of Il Mago di Oz in Florence; a ballet at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome; and a series of concerts with the Münchner Symphoniker in Munich and at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan.