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Andrés OROZCO-ESTRADA
conductor
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada was born in 1977 in Medellin (Columbia). At the age of five he started to play the violin, at the age of 15 he conducted the orchestra of his Music High school. In 1992 he started to study conducting. From 1997 to 2003 he persued his conducting studies in the master class of Uros Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy.
From 2001 to 2004 Andrés Orozco-Estrada was elected Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna's Technical University. During these years he conducted a wide range of symphonic and opera programmes, including concert and staged performances of Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute and Don Carlo. In May 2003 Andrés Orozco-Estrada for the first time conducted the "Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich" in a concert in Vienna. This succesful debut immediately led to an invitation for a two years' tenure as "Associate Conductor" of this orchestra. Part of his work in this position was is to conduct regular subscription concerts at the Vienna Musikverein and at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten (April 2006). After a Musikverein concert in June 2004 within the Vienna Festival where Andrés Orozco-Estrada stepped in at short notice (Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs with Eva Mei and Anton Bruckner 4th Symphony), the Austrian newspaper Der Standard nicknamed him "The Miracle of Vienna". In 2005, Andrés Orozco-Estrada made his debut with recreation - Großes Orchester Graz at the styriarte in Graz. After this highly acclaimed concert he was immediately appointed Principal Conductor of this orchestra for a tenure of three years (2006-2008). He conducts regularly concerts in Graz as well as concerts at the styriarte and orchestral tours. Apart from his work with "recreation" and Tonkünstler-Orchester Andrés Orozco-Estrada is regularly conducting the Bogotá Philharmonic and the Columbian National Orchestra. He has worked with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Graz Symphonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid. He further was Jesús López Cobos' assistent at a production of Don Carlo at the Teatro Real in Madrid and conducted a series of performances of Rossinis L'Italiana in Algeri at the Opera Festival in Klosterneuburg during summer 2005. Beside commitments in Vienna - where he also returns to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra -, Graz and Columbia, the season 2005/06 included concerts with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the Slovak National Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia and the Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg. In the season 2006/07 he conducted concerts with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, the Viennese Chamber Orchestra, the Trondheim Symfoniorkester, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi. |
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