MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Photo: Ben McKee
Andrew Griffiths
A musician of rare versatility, Andrew Griffiths combines his role as Head Coach & Music Consultant at the National Opera Studio with a busy freelance career in the worlds of opera and choral music.
A graduate of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme, he has conducted productions for The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Opera Theatre Company, Early Opera Company, Mid Wales Opera, Bampton Classical Opera, and Iford Festival Opera, worked at Glyndebourne, English National Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater, and appeared in concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of the Swan, Southbank Sinfonia, and Orpheus Sinfonia.
Andrew is Musical Director of Londinium and Kingston Choral Society, and regularly broadcasts and performs with the BBC Singers, for whom his numerous engagements have included the world premiere of John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times. He has also worked with the BBC Symphony Chorus, Coro Casa da Música, the choirs at Dartington International Summer School, New London Chamber Choir, and Hong Kong's Tallis Vocalis. He sings as a founder member of renowned vocal consort Stile Antico.
Recent highlights include conducting Semele for Opera Collective Ireland, a Sondheim portrait for the National Opera Studio, Monteverdi’s Vespers at Dartington, and works by Paul Patterson for Orchestra of the Swan, and working as assistant conductor/continuo for Theodora and Alcina at The Royal Opera. Forthcoming engagements include conducting a set of Baroque and contemporary scenes for the National Opera Studio, directed by Keith Warner.