Andriy Yurkevych was born in Zboriv (Ukraine) and 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, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
in Siena with Gianluigi Gelmetti and in Pesaro with Alberto Zedda. He was
awarded a special prize at the Turchak National Competition in Kiev.
In 2022, he was appointed music director at the Prague National Opera and
since then he conducted operas, as well as symphonic concerts, such as: La
Traviata, Tosca, Aida, La Bohème, Roméo
et Juliette, Madama Butterfly, Macbeth, Cavalleria
Rusticana and Pagliacci, Nabucco, L'Elisir
d'amore and Otello.
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; Pagliacci; Carmen; Die
Fledermaus; Der Zigeunerbaron; Die Lustige Witwe; and
several operas from the Russian repertoire. Among the ballets he led,
there are The Nutcracker; The Swan Lake; La Bayadère;
and Coppélia.
Andry Yurkevych also served ad General Music Director of the National
Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau, as Music
Director at the Polish National Opera, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, and as
Music Director of the National Theatre in Odessa. As Music Director at 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 The Haunted Manor; Die Zauberflöte, Norma
(concert version), 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 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, again in The Swann Lake
and he conducted Falstaff for the opening night of the 2010/11
season.
His numerous collaborations include: 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 Montecarlo; La forza del destino and Boris
Godunov at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles; 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 Pagliacci in Moldova. He also
conducted Norma in Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice and Köln; The
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
Zürich and Madrid; Aida in Riga; Lucrezia Borgia in
Berlin; Pique Dame, Der Fliegende Hollaender, Rigoletto
and Madama Butterfly in Warsaw; Anna Bolena in Budapest
and Kosice; Norma and Roberto Devereux at the Wiener
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.
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.
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; Mahler's Second
Symphony in Lodz; Madama Butterfly in Nice; La
Sonnambula in Stuttgart; and Rigoletto at the Teatr Wielki
in Warsaw and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
Among his engagements for the 2025–26 season are: Il Trovatore at
the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona; Lucia di Lammermoor (concert
version) in Ghent and Antwerp; La Traviata in Bergen; and Werther
in Tokyo.
August 2025