Introducing
Andrew Mogrelia, Conductor
Principal Guest Conductor, Queensland Ballet
Music Director San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra
Former Music Director and Principal Conductor, San Francisco Ballet
Andrew is music director of the conservatory orchestra at the esteemed San Francisco Conservatory of Music and immediate past music director and principal conductor of the San Francisco Ballet. He has worked in some of the world’s top venues, and conducted many of Europe’s leading orchestras.
One of today’s leading ballet conductors, Andrew has worked with dance companies such as the English National Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, both Australian and West Australian Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre in venues such as London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican, the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and the Sydney Opera House.
Andrew has an exceptionally extensive discography for Naxos and Marco Polo of orchestral works by Handel, Suk and Novak, as well as numerous complete ballets by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Delibes. Two new CDs have been released on the NAXOS Label, one with violinist Chloë Hanslip and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and the other the other music of Henri Vieuxtemps with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Yet-to-be-released CDs include music of Rudolphe Kreutzer with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra.
Andrew conducted The Australian Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty at the Sydney Opera House. He was last in Asia conducting the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Ballet in February 2009, conducted the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in March this year, and returns for the Queensland Ballet production of The Nutcracker in December 2010.
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