Andrés Orozco-Estrada (December 1977, Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian violinist and conductor.
Andrés Orozco-Estrada was born in December 1977 in Medellín (Colombia). After early studies of the violin he started taking conducting classes in 1992. He came to Vienna in 1997 where he was accepted in the master class of Uroš Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy, completing his degree with a guest conducting engagement with the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Wiener Musikverein in spring 2003.
In June 2004 – under the auspices of the Wiener Festwochen – Andrés Orozco-Estrada stepped in at short notice in a concert of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich performing Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with Eva Mei and Anton Bruckner’s 4th Symphony for which he was celebrated as “The Miracle of Vienna” in the Austrian press. This concert led to an intense cooperation between him and the orchestra, as well as to invitations for various international orchestras. In 2007 Andrés Orozco-Estrada was appointed new Principal Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich. He will take up this position starting from autumn 2009 season for a three year period.
In Mai 2007, Orozco-Estrada made his debut with the Basque National Orchestra (Orquesta de Euskadi) which led to a fruitful collaboration. In December 2008 he was designated Principal Conductor beginning with the 2009/10 season.
From 2005-2009, Andrés Orozco-Estrada has been the Principal Conductor of Großes Orchester Graz “recreation”, giving regular season subscription concerts and performances at the “styriarte” festival in Graz.
In the past years Orozco-Estrada has regularly conducted the Bogotá Philharmonics and the Colombian National Orchestra. He guest-conducted orchestras like Wiener Symphoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philharmoniker Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Bamberger Symphoniker, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia as well as the Slovak and the Slovenian Philharmonics.
Being Music Director of the Opera of Klosterneuburg from 2005 to 2007, he led productions of L'Italiana in Algeri, Fidelio and The Tales of Hoffmann. Also he conducted Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, La Traviata, Don Carlos, Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci. Further opera projects are planned in Stuttgart (Staatsoper Stuttgart) and Hamburg with a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola.
During season 2009/10 Orozco-Estrada will be on stage with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich in Vienna, St. Pölten, Grafenegg, Budapest, Zagreb and Munich. He will perform with the Orquesta de Euskadi in San Sebastián, Bilbao, Vitoria and Pamplona. Furthermore, he will be guest-conducting a.o. in the Netherlands (Orkest van het Oosten), Frankfurt (Hessischer Rundfunk), Essen (Essener Philharmoniker), La Coruña (Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia), Bergen (Bergen Philharmonics) and Leipzig (Gewandhaus).
| Preceded by Stefan Vladar |
Chief Conductor, Großes Orchester Graz 2006–2009 |
Succeeded by (post vacant) |
| Preceded by Gilbert Varga |
Principal Conductor, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi 2009– |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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