Forthcoming projects | Past projects
13 May 2012
Hidden Voices: The World of Johannes Brahms
Andrew conducted a repeat performance of this highly successful programme for Londinium, focusing on Brahms' choral music. St Augustine, One Tree Hill, SE23
1 - 11 May 2012
Schumann and Kyburz with BBC Singers
Andrew worked as chorus-master to the BBC Singers for their collaboration with Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor Susanna Mälkki. The repertoire included Schumann's Viel doppelchörige Gesänge and Hanspeter Kyburz's The Voynich Cypher Mansucript.Performance at La Cité de la Musique, on May 11th.
Saturday 28 April 2012, 9.30pm
Romantics Transcribed: NLCC a cappella
Andrew made his debut with the outstanding New London Chamber Choir, specialists in contemporary repertoire, in the closing concert of the Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival. The programme combined modern classics by Lachenmann and Saariaho with virtuosic transcriptions by Gottwald of German Romantic and French Impressionist masterpieces.St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Saturday 31 March 2012, 7.30pm
St John Passion at Cadogan Hall
A world-class line-up of soloists - Anna Devin, Christopher Ainslie, Andrew Staples, Jacques Imbrailo, and Mark Stone - joined Andrew as he made his debut at Cadogan Hall, conducting Kingston Choral Society and London Festival Baroque, led by Catherine Martin.
Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square, London
Friday 30 March 2012, 7.30pm
Hidden Voices: The World of Johannes Brahms
Andrew directed Londinium, one of London's finest chamber choirs, in a programme focusing on Brahms' choral music. Repertoire included Brahms' exquisite Fünf Gesänge op.104, works by his contemporaries Schumann and Cornelius, and music from his eclectic personal library, by Gabrieli, Eccard, Schütz, as well as the first performance of a new work by Timothy Burke.St George's Church, Bloomsbury, London.
12 - 15 March 2012
Recording with La nuova musica
Andrew produced La nuova musica's latest recording of music by Handel and Vivaldi for the Harmonia Mundi label.
February-March 2012
Judith Weir at The Royal Opera
Andrew returned to The Royal Opera to work as coach and orchestral pianist on the UK Premiere of Judith Weir's Miss Fortune.
30 January - 4 February 2012
Dvorak's Jacobin with BBC Singers / BBC SO
Following last season's successful Bartered Bride, Andrew returned to the BBC Singers as chorus-master for a concert performance of Dvorak's opera with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.
December 2011 - January 2012
Jonathan Harvey's Wagner Dream at BBC SO
Andrew assisted Martyn Brabbins at the BBC Symphony Orchestra in preparing this Barbican 'Present Voices' performance of Jonathan Harvey's opera Wagner Dream.
Saturday 26 November 2011
Elijah with Kingston Choral Society
Outstanding soloists Anita Watson, Hanna Hipp, Robert Anthony Gardiner and Adrian Powter joined Kingston Choral Society and the Thames Sinfonia as Andrew conducted Mendelssohn's masterpiece, performed as part of the Kingston Festival of the Voice.
Kingston Parish Church
Tuesday 15 November 2011
"Fire and Ice" with Londinium
Andrew made his debut as Music Director of Londinium City Voices, one of London's finest chamber choirs, in a thrilling programme contrasting Victoria's Requiem (in his 400th anniversary year) with contemporary writing by Mäntyjärvi, Nørgård, Pärt and Vasks.
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, SW1
September - December 2011
Rameau's Castor and Pollux at English National Opera
Andrew returned to ENO as assistant conductor to Christian Curnyn for the company's first-ever staging of a Rameau opera. The outstanding cast included Sophie Bevan, Allan Clayton and Roderick Williams.
15 June - 15 August 2011
Dvorak's Rusalka at Glyndebourne
Andrew worked for the first time at the Glyndebourne Festival, assisting Sir Andrew Davis, leading the first two weeks of rehearsal, and conducting the cover showing of Dvorak's Rusalka.
10 July 2011
Steffani's Stabat Mater
Andrew led a workshop on Steffani's late masterpiece for the North East Early Music Forum.
Clements Hall, York
11 June 2011
Brahms and Poulenc with Kingston Choral Society
Poulenc: Gloria
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Andrew conducted KCS and the Thames Sinfonia, with former colleagues from the ROH Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, soprano Anita Watson and baritone Jacques Imbrailo.
Kingston Parish Church
4 June 2011
World Premiere of Perpetual Light
Andrew conducted the first performances of Jessica Curry's 'Requiem for an Unscorched Earth', Perpetual Light, with chamber choir Londinium at the Old Vic Tunnels.
15 - 20 May 2011
The Bartered Bride with BBC Singers / BBCSO
Andrew returned to the BBC Singers as Chorus Master to Jiri Belohlavek for the final performance of the BBC Symphony Orchestra season, a concert staging of Smetana's The Bartered Bride at the Barbican Centre.
30 March - 1 May 2011
Charpentier's Medée in Chicago
Following a successful production of Cavalli's Giasone in 2010, Andrew returned to Chicago Opera Theater for Charpentier's masterpiece, taking charge of the first two weeks of rehearsal before assisting conductor Christian Curnyn on his arrival. He played harpsichord continuo at the performances with the Baroque Band, and conducted the cover showing.
26 March 2011
Carmina Burana with Kingston Choral Society
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Journey
Orff: Carmina Burana
Andrew's first concert as Musical Director of KCS, with soloists Aoife O'Sullivan, Tyler Clarke and David Butt Philip.
St Andrew's Church, Surbiton
22 February 2011
"Nightsong" with Londinium City Voices
Andrew conducted Londinium in a programme of night-music, including Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden and
music by Tallis, Byrd, Sheppard, White, Bach, Mendelssohn, Holst and Vaughan Williams.
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, SW1
18 - 22 February 2011
Ferneyhough at BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew assisted in the musical preparation of Ferneyhough's extraordinary
Plötzlichkeit conducted by Martyn Brabbins, part of the Total Immersion: Brian
Ferneyhough event at the Barbican.
16 December 2010
"Gluttony" with Londinium City Voices
Andrew replaced an indisposed conductor at three hours' notice to conduct a Christmas programme with Londinium.
St Mary Aldermary, EC4
10 December 2010
Bach: Coffee Cantata
Andrew conducted a staged performance of Bach's Coffee Cantata with Fflur Wyn, Stefan Loges and the Early Opera Company as part of the 'Kaffeine und Kuchen' soiree at the Wellcome Collection, London.
November 2010
Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe in Luxembourg
Andrew was reinvited to work as assistant conductor to Thomas Hengelbrock with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble at the Grand Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg.
26 August - 21 September 2010
Steffani at The Royal Opera
Andrew worked as assistant conductor to Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble for the first British performances of Steffani's extraordinary opera Niobe, Regina di Tebe.
9 - 18 August 2010
Handel: Il pastor fido
Andrew acted as producer for La nuova musica's premiere recording of the first version of Il pastor fido, conducted by David Bates.
31 July - 7 August 2010
Dartington International Summer School
Andrew led vocal chamber music courses alongside members of Stile Antico, and sang the tenor solos in the end-of-week performance of Handel's Alexander's Feast
10 July 2010
Monteverdi Vespers
Andrew directed a full-day workshop on Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 as part of the York Early Music Festival, under the auspices of the North East Early Music Forum.
22 May - 3 July 2010
La cenerentola at the Iford Festival
Andrew returned for a third season at the Iford Festival, leading seven performances of Rossini's Cinderella directed by Bill Bankes-Jones with the CHROMA ensemble.
10 - 29 May 2010
La fille du regiment
Andrew returned to the Royal Opera as offstage conductor for Donizetti's comic masterpiece, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez.
2 April - 2 May 2010
Cavalli's Giasone in Chicago
Andrew assisted Christian Curnyn at Chicago Opera Theater, leading many of the cast rehearsals, conducting the cover showing and playing harpsichord and organ in the performances.
In addition to these engagements, Andrew is regularly invited to work with singers at the Royal Opera House
and at the National Opera Studio.
For all booking enquiries, please contact Andrew's agent, Rayfield Artists.