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
Staatoper, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, the
Greek National Opera and the San Franscisco Opera. He also served as Music
Director of the National Theatre in Odessa. 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 recently
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 in Gdansk; The Pique Dame in Warsaw;
Roberto Devereux in Zürich; Il Mago di Oz in Florence; Aida in
Riga; Macbeth in Gdansk. Active also on the symphonic side, Andriy
Yurkevych has a repertoire that spams from Tchaikovsky, Rimski-Korsakov, Glinka,
Mussorgsky, Shostankovich.
His
upcoming projects
include: Lucrezia Borgia and L'elisir d'Amore in Berlin;
Anna Bolena
and Roberto Devereux in Zurich; Der
Fliegende Hollaender and Rigoletto
in Warsaw; Norma at the Wiener Staatsoper;
Turandot in
Santiago de Chile; Anna Bolena in
Budapest; and a series of concerts in Prague and Berlin. He will conduct the
Polish Sinfonia Juventus Orchestra in a concert in Warsaw.
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