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Andrew Mogrelia
Conductor
Music Director San Francisco Cons. of Music Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor of the Queensland Ballet

British conductor Andrew Mogrelia is principal guest conductor of the Queensland Ballet, music director of the conservatory orchestra at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and immediate past music director and principal conductor of the San Francisco Ballet. He has conducted many of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony BBC Scottish Symphony, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Residentie Orchestra (Hague Philharmonic), Noord Nederlands Orkest, Royal Flemish Orchestra and Dutch RadioSymphony in the Netherlands, the Slovak Radio Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Soloists, and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech and Slovak Republics; and further afield the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Australia, among others.

One of today’s leading ballet conductors, Andrew has worked with such companies 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, all of which received critical acclaim. His newest CD with violinist Chloë Hanslip and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has just been released on the Naxos Label. Yet-to-be-released CDs include music of Henri Vieuxtemps with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, music of Rudolphe Kreutzer with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, and Aaron Copland's music to the movies "Of Mice and Men" and "Our Town" with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra.

In recent seasons, Andrew gave the Dutch premiere of Dybbuk with the Noord Nederlands Orkest and conducted productions of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Stravinsky's complete Firebird ballet with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra. He also conducted the Dutch National Ballet in John Adams’ Shaker Loops and then later organised a week-long Residency for John Adams' 60th birthday at the SF Conservatory of Music, conducting The Wound Dresser and Harmonielehre in the presence of the composer.

Andrew conducted the Australian Ballet in Sleeping Beauty at the Sydney Opera House in November and December 2005, was guest conductor at the Bonyi International Youth Music Festival in Brisbane in 2007 and conducted François Klaus’ production of Swan Lake with the Queensland Ballet in December 2008. He was last in Asia conducting the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Ballet in February 2009, and returned to Queensland in December 2009 for The Sleeping Beauty, and will return in December 2010 for The Nutcracker. Most recently he conducted a Mendelssohn programme which included the premiere of Peter Zagar's cello concerto with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and opened the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s 2009-2010 Season.