Andrew Griffiths

Conductor

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  A graduate of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Andrew Griffiths has already conducted Hansel and Gretel for Opera North, Cinderella, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro for Iford Festival Opera, Rita and La Serva Padrona for Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, and performances of Flavio and Amadigi for Early Opera Company.  His concert work includes appearances with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Southbank Sinfonia and the Orpheus Sinfonia.

  Griffiths has assisted on major projects at the Royal Opera (including the Ring Cycle and the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur), English National Opera, and the BBC Scottish Symphony.

  Recent engagements include a first season at Glyndebourne, including conducting a performance of Scenes from Rusalka in the Theatre with the cover cast, and a return to the ROH to assist on Steffani’s Niobe.

  Engagements in 2012 and beyond include Andrew Griffiths’ debut at Bampton Classical Opera, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Iford Opera, assisting Martyn Brabbins on Wagner Dream with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and extensive work with the BBC Singers.

  Andrew Griffiths made his debut as Music Director of the Kingston Choral Society in January 2011 in a performance of Brahms’ Requiem with the Thames Sinfonia and soloists Anita Watson and Jacques Imbrailo.  He looks forward to conducting further large-scale KCS projects (including Bach’s St. John Passion with London Festival Baroque at Cadogan Hall, and Belshazzar’s Feast and Verdi’s Requiem with the Thames Sinfonia) in 11/12 and beyond.

  Andrew Griffiths is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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  • La Cenerentola at Iford
    (June 2010)

    Happier times in Iford’s enchanted Somerset cloister, where Rossini’s Cinderella, directed by Bill Bankes-Jones, turns out to be more than summer fluff. The score is reduced to eleven instruments, sounds rather Schubertian, and comes across with great verve, clarity and elegance in Andrew Griffiths’s conducting of the Chroma ensemble, every one a virtuoso, of whom Tom Hankey (violin) stands out for energy and style. Griffiths paces things brilliantly, not afraid to draw out a yearning strain that is often lost in the welter of Rossinian ebullience, but equally driving the ensembles along with scary speed.

    The Tablet, Robert Thicknesse

  • The Barber of Seville at Iford
    (June 2009)

    Iford Arts' opera summer season has kicked off with a lively take on Rossini's ever-green comic masterpiece... Andrew Griffiths - a graduate of the Royal Opera's Young Artist Programme - managed to keep things together with a sure hand, produced some seductive Rossinian rubato and elicited a great deal of characterful playing from the ten-piece orchestra, CHROMA...

    Musical Criticism, 24th June 2009

  • Hansel and Gretel at Opera North
    (December 2008)

    Opera North did it with a six-piece band, and an audience of squirming 9-year-olds. The Royal Opera production was all about luxury casting and a sublime orchestral sound. Yet it was Opera North that won hands down... if I had to go and see one of those productions again, I'd pick Opera North's. Bigger, it turns out, doesn't always mean better.

    The Guardian

• Orchestral

  Adams

  • Short Ride in a Fast Machine

  Bedford

  • Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves

  Beethoven

  • 'Coriolan Overture'
  • Piano Concerto no. 5
  • Symphony no. 3
  • Symphony no. 7
  • Symphony no. 9

  Benjamin

  • Sudden Time

  Berlioz

  • Symphonie Fantastique

  Bourgeois, Derek

  • Fantasy Tryptych

  Brahms

  • 'Tragic' Overture

  Britten

  • Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

  Bruckner

  • Symphony no. 4

  Debussy

  • La Mer

  Elgar

  • Symphony no. 1
  • The Dream of Gerontius

  Kabalevsky

  • Colas Breugnon Overture

  Korngold

  • Cello Concerto

  Liadov

  • Eight Russian Folk Songs

  MacMillan

  • Tryst

  Mahler

  • Symphony no. 1

  Prokofiev

  • 'Classical' Symphony

  Rachmaninov

  • Symphonic Dances

  Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Scheherazade

  Saint-Saens

  • 'Organ' Symphony

  Schubert

  • Symphony no. 5

  Shostakovich

  • Symphony no. 12

  Tchaikovsky

  • Sleeping Beauty (complete)
  • Symphony no. 5

  Turnage

  • Dark Crossing
  • Twice Through the Heart

  Walton

  • Symphony no. 1

  Weber

  • Overture to Der Freischütz

  Webern

  • Symphony op. 21

  Musicals

  Loesser, Frank

  • Guys and Dolls

  Porter, Cole

  • Kiss me Kate

  Sondheim

  • Into the Woods

  Opera

  Bartok

  • Duke Bluebeard's Castle

  Beethoven

  • Fidelio

  Birtwistle

  • The Minotaur

  Bizet

  • Carmen

  Britten

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Donizetti

  • L'elisir d'amore
  • Linda di Chamounix
  • Rita

  Handel

  • Acis and Galatea
  • Amadigi
  • Flavio
  • Orlando
  • Semele

  Humperdinck

  • Hansel and Gretel

  MacMillan

  • Parthenogenesis

  Maxwell Davies

  • Eight Songs for a Mad King
  • Taverner

  Monteverdi

  • L'incoronazione di Poppea

  Mozart

  • Don Giovanni
  • Idomeneo
  • La Finta Giardiniera
  • Le Nozze di Figaro

  Pergolesi

  • La Serva Padrona

  Puccini

  • Gianni Schicchi
  • Tosca

  Purcell

  • Dido and Aeneas

  Ravel

  • L'heure Espagnole

  Rossini

  • The Barber of Seville

  Sawer, David

  • Skin Deep

  Schoenberg

  • Erwartung

  Strauss

  • Ariadne auf Naxos

  Verdi

  • Falstaff
  • Simon Boccanegra
  • Stiffelio
  • La Traviata

  Wagner

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen

  Weir, Judith

  • The Vanishing Bridegroom

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