Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Andrés Orozco- Estrada ( born December 14, 1977 in Medellín ) is a Colombian living in Vienna conductor.

Biography

In addition to an early began violin studies began in 1992, when 15 -year-old to take conducting lessons. In 1997 he went to Vienna, where he was accepted into the conducting class of Uroš Lajovic at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In spring 2003, he graduated with a baton the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein " with distinction". The focus of his artistic work lies in the Romantic repertoire, the Viennese Classicism. At the same time, but Andrés Orozco- Estrada has a keen interest in contemporary music and is committed to the works of Austrian as Spanish and South American composers. Among other things, he brought works of Christian Muthspiel, Johannes Maria Staud and Gerald Resch premiered. 2013 broke Orozco- Estrada from the negotiations on the succession of Markus Stenz as Cologne's music director due to numerous other offers. From the season 2014/15 Orozco- Estrada is effective for five years as music director of the Houston Symphony in Texas. Since the season 2013/14 he was there already designated bandleader. He will take over beginning with the same season the position of Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Paavo Järvi.

Previous concerts

In June 2004, Orozco- Estrada jumped in the Musikverein in Vienna at a Festival concert by the Musicians' Orchestra of Lower Austria. The program included Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss with Eva Mei and the Fourth Symphony of Anton Bruckner. This concert, in which Orozco- Estrada was celebrated by the Viennese press as " the miracle of Vienna", led to an intensive cooperation between him and the orchestra as well as invitations to numerous international orchestras.

2007 Orozco -Estrada was appointed as the new Chief Conductor of the Orchestra of Lower Austria Musicians and thus succeeds by Kristjan Järvi, Carlos Kalmar and Fabio Luisi. With the beginning of the season 2009/10 he took up this position for the time being three years and is now a regular on the podium of the Musicians at the Vienna Musikverein and at the Music Festival Grafenegg active. Together with his orchestra undertook Orozco- Estrada a UK tour.

In May 2007, Orozco- Estrada made ​​his debut with an exclusively Basque music concert dedicated to the Basque National Orchestra ( Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi ) - a concert, the foundation stone of an intense musical and very enriching collaboration was. This led to his appointment as the new chief conductor of the orchestra in December 2008, a position he also took the start of the new season 2009/10. Together with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, he gave numerous concerts in San Sebastian, Bilbao and Pamplona.

Orozco- Estrada was from 2005 to 2009 chief conductor of the Great Orchestra of Graz "recreation ", with which he played alongside subscription series also regular appearances at the festival " Styriarte " in Graz. With the start of the 2009/2010 season Orozco- Estrada was chief conductor of Musicians Orchestra Lower Austria.

In recent years, invited a number of the most important orchestras in the world Orozco- Estrada to cooperation, including the Vienna Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Houston Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak and Slovenian Philharmonic. Furthermore, Orozco- Estrada also collaborates with the Colombian National Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. In the recent past he has performed, among others, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In the field of opera, he was previously head of production The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, Fidelio, L' Italiana in Algeri, Don Carlos, La Bohème, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, The Tales of Hoffmann, and finally La Traviata at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

Season 2011/12

In the season 2011/2012 Orozco- Estrada will make his U.S. debut with the American Orchestra Academy New World Symphony, further debuts in Europe are conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France planned in Paris. Re-invitations lead him to the Munich Philharmonic and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.

Recordings

• The live recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major with the Musicians' Orchestra by Preiser Records ( the recording was from the classic magazine " Crescendo " " the best Mahler albums" included in the category)
• The live recording of Felix Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise Symphony No. 2 in B - flat major with the Musicians' Orchestra, the Chorus sine nomine, the sopranos Christiane Oelze and Simona Šaturová and tenor Ian Bostridge by Preiser Records was greeted enthusiastically by the audience. This CD is the first in a planned Mendelssohn cycle.