Rayfield Artists - Andrew Griffiths


	Home News Artists Links Contact	ANDREW GRIFFITHS Conductor full biography \| selected reviews \| photo A recent graduate of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, Andrew Griffiths has a growing reputation as a young conductor of considerable talent. His past engagements include Hansel and Gretel for Opera North, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro for Iford Festival Opera, Rita and La Serva Padrona for ROH Linbury Theatre, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof for Paragon Ensemble Scotland and performances of Flavio and Amadigi for Early Opera Company. Whilst at Covent Garden, he made his debuts with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera (subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3) and the Orchestra of Opera North. Concert work includes appearances with Southbank Sinfonia and the Orpheus Sinfonia. Equally in demand as an assistant conductor, coach and répétiteur, Andrew has worked on numerous Royal Opera productions, including Wagner's Ring and the world premiere of Birtwistle's The Minotaur, alongside conductors including Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Maurizio Benini. He has been invited to work on productions at Opera North (world premiere of David Sawer's Skin Deep), English National Opera, Scottish Opera, ROH2, Opera Theatre Company, Musica nel Chiostro (Batignano) and British Youth Opera, and has gained extensive experience in Baroque repertoire as assistant to Christian Curnyn. A pianist, viola player and singer by training, Andrew began his musical education as a Quirister and Scholar at Winchester College, and graduated with distinction in music from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he held a choral exhibition. He pursued conducting studies under Martyn Brabbins at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and trained as a répétiteur at the National Opera Studio and at Scottish Opera. He is a former principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and sings professionally with Grammy-nominated vocal consort Stile Antico. In 2008 he was chosen to receive the Wagner Society's Bayreuth Bursary. Further engagements in 2009 include a return to the Royal Opera to assist Sir Mark Elder for Linda di Chamounix, and Peter Maxwell Davies' Taverner under Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. This short biography is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please download a full biography here.