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Introduction
Described recently in the Observer as a ‘tremendous young conductor’, and recipient of the 2012 Leonard Ingrams Memorial Prize from Garsington Opera, John Andrews is increasingly in demand for his musical fluency, passion and skill.
He is Music Director of Stanley Hall Opera, and is conductor-in-association of the English Symphony Orchestra (with whom he will close this year’s English Music Festival). He has conducted several productions for English Touring Opera, and is on the music staff at Garsington Opera, Music of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and a resident conductor at Opéra de Baugé. This Autumn he is conducting Co-Opera‘s tour of The Mikado.
Forthcoming – Spring 2013
Saturday 11 May, 2013
‘A Royal Occasion’
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Parry: I Was Glad
Walton: Te Deum & Orb and Sceptre
Parry arr. Elgar: Jerusalem
Elgar: Coronation Ode
Leicester Philharmonic Choir
Leicester Symphony Orchestra
7.30pm, De Montfort Hall, Leicester
Thursday 23 May, 2013
Works by Arne, Boyce, Britten, Finzi and Arnold
English Symphony Orchestra
The English Music Festival, 2013
7.30pm, Christ Church, Malvern
Saturday 25 May, 2013
Sullivan: The Golden Legend
Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano)
Grant Doyle (baritone)
English Symphony Orchestra (leader, Michael Bochmann)
Harpenden Choral Society
The English Music Festival, 2013
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey, Oxon
Sunday 2 June, 2013
Rogers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma!
directed by Natascha Metherell
CMS, Stepney Greencoats School
5.00pm, Opera Holland Park
News
Welcome to the 2012-13 season, and to my new website which now includes audio and video. This year has some real treats in store. I’ve just had the huge pleasure of working with Dame Evelyn Glennie at the De Montfort Hall, and will be returning in May to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen’s Coronation and again July to celebrate the centenary of the hall itself with my my own Leicester Symphony Orchestra and the Leicester Philharmonic Choir.
I’m also really excited to be judging the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Awards this year at the RAM. Slightly daunted by the number of people we’ll be hearing, but very much looking forward to hearing the next generation of wonderful soloists, both vocal and instrumental.
I’m delighted to be conducting both sides of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s musical personality, his great Oratorio The Golden Legend with the English Symphony Orchestra and then Mikado with Co-Opera. At Garsington I’ll be working with Martin André and Olivia Fuchs on the atmospheric Hänsel und Gretel, which promises to be a magical experience in the woodland surroundings of Wormsley. Then for a complete contrast at Opéra de Baugé I’m conducting Donizetti’s razor-sharp comedy L’elisir d’amore.