Perpetual Light (wp), Old Vic Tunnels, 2011

A fusion of live choir, film and installation, Perpetual Light featured the Londinium choir, conducted by Andrew Griffiths... Perpetual Light was a dark, tormented piece, punctuated by moments of brightness. It was these moments that radiated hope, the emotional thread that tied the whole piece together. From start to finish, Londinium perfectly captured this delicate emotion, without ever losing the provocative torment that defined Curry's work.
Kay Kempin, Bachtrack

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La Cenerentola, Iford Festival Opera, 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... 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.
Robert Thicknesse, The Tablet

Cenerentola's final showcase aria can be a stumbling-block not just for the singer but for the whole opera, yet Caryl Hughes blossomed at just the right time, without any feeling of having stinted on the way. The conductor Andrew Griffiths managed Rossini's overall crescendo to this peak with similar control and flair, ensuring a wholly satisfying end to the evening. It was a reminder that there is almost nothing to beat the magic of Iford at its intimate best.
Rian Evans, Opera Magazine

Supported by vivacious playing from the ensemble Chroma under Andrew Griffiths, Caryl Hughes sang warmly as an endearing Cenerentola... Cenerentola will never be my favourite Rossini opera, but in Iford's Italianate cloister, it shone with gentle charm.
Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph

Caryl Hughes gave a feisty account of the title role, fluent in her colatura with her small frame packing a big punch. The Chroma ensemble, under Andrew Griffiths, provided effervescent accompaniment that made the show fizz along nicely.
Ashutosh Khandekar, Opera Now

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Il barbiere di Siviglia, Iford Festival Opera, 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.
Hugo Shirley, Musical Criticism

Chroma, a ten-piece band conducted by Andrew Griffiths, played this wonderful score with the elegance of a spirited Schubert.
Robert Thicknesse, Opera Now

Iford Opera's 'Barber of Seville' is in full swing - and well worth catching for Andre Heller-Lopes' adroit, energetic (if sometimes fidgety) production, Andrew Griffiths' nippy musical pacing, and a zestful cast.
Venue Magazine

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Hansel and Gretel, Opera North, 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.
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian

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Jette Parker Summer Concert, Royal Opera House, 2008

Richard Farnes and Andrew Griffiths conducted the Orchestra of Opera North... 'Deh, vieni' was perfectly passed and all three composers' ensembles generated exuberant theatrical momentum.
Opera Magazine

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Le nozze di Figaro, Iford Festival Opera, 2008

Conductor Andrew Griffiths kept the drama moving at a good pace... without losing a delicateness that suited the singers, Mozart's music and the setting very well."
Early Music Today

Andrew Griffiths' brisk musical direction, meanwhile, ensures plenty of musical snap, crackle and pop throughout.
Venue Magazine

I doubt very much that you will find a more magical performance that this... Iford Festival Opera's own production with young, beautiful voices, and players on period instruments, all under the youthful but ever watchful eye of Andrew Griffiths.
Bach Chronicle

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Rita, Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, 2007

A musical triumph... conductor Andrew Griffiths draws from his orchestra (the Southbank Sinfonia) a rhythmically incisive, instrumentally detailed reading of Donizetti's compelling score.
MusicOMH

Young Artist Andrew Griffiths conducted an excellent account of the score, inspiring the Southbank Sinfonia to give of their all. Both the balance of the instruments and the tempi were well handled, and the accompaniment was sensitive to all three singers.
Musical Criticism

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Jette Parker Summer Concert, Royal Opera House, 2007

Griffiths conducted one of the evening's particular highlights, Liora Grodnikaite's assumption of Charlotte in Massenet's Werther.
The Opera Critic

Young Artist Andrew Griffiths took the baton for the Mascagni, bringing out many details of the composer's lush orchestral palette and engaging well with the singers.
MusicOMH

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La serva padrona, ROH Linbury Theatre, 2007

Andrew Griffiths leads his small ensemble in a suitably lively performance of the score.
MusicOMH