MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Photo: Ben McKee
Andrew Griffiths
A musician of rare versatility, Andrew Griffiths combines his role as Head Coach 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 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.
Engagements during the current season include conducting contemporary opera scenes at the National Opera Studio directed by Keith Warner, a return to Bampton Classical Opera for Salieri's La locandiera, Brahms' Requiem and Poulenc's Gloria at Cadogan Hall to celebrate Kingston Choral Society's 75th birthday, Handel's Israel in Egypt for the Music Summer School at Gresham's, assistant conductor for Il trovatore at The Royal Opera, and chorus-master for Boulez's Cummings ist der Dichter with the BBC Singers.