Martin André frequentou a Yehudi Menuhin School (onde estudou piano) e estudou música na Universidade de Cambridge. Fez a sua estreia profissional dirigindo uma versão de câmara da Aida para a Ópera Nacional de Gales, onde passou várias temporadas como maestro residente. Durante este período trabalhou um vasto reportório, dando particular atenção ao séc. XIX italiano.
Entre 1993 e 1996 foi Director Musical da English Touring Opera, dirigindo óperas tanto em Londres como em digressões por todo o Reino Uno na Ópera ido. Em 1996 foi galardoado com o Arts Foundation Conducting Foundation. Martin André é o único maestro que já dirigiu todas as grandes companhias de ópera britâncias. Desde que deixou o seu cargo na Ópera Nacional de Gales, tem-se apresentado à frente da Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Ópera da Escócia, Ópera Nacional Inglesa, Opera North e Ópera da Irlanda do Norte. Em 2000 dirigiu uma produção gravado ao vivo para a BBC de Londres de Le Nozze di Figaro.
Actualmente divide a sua carreira profissional entre os teatros de ópera e as salas de concerto, dirigindo reputadas orquestras.
A sua carreira internacional inclui compromissos na África do Sul, Albânia, Alemanha, Austrália, Canadá, Estados Unidos, França, Holanda, Israel, Itália, Noruega, Nova Zelândia, Portugal, República Checa e Suiça.
Este ano dirigiu Blaubart de Offenbach na Áustria e La Traviata de Verdi no Colorado, USA, Flauta Mágica com a English National Opera (Londres), um espectáculo com três óperas (Schicchi, Mavra e 7 Deadly Sins) em Atenas assim como diversos concertos na Holanda, Noruega e Portugal. No próximo ano abrirá a temporada a Orquestra Nacional do Porto e mais tarde voltará para dirigir Rigoletto. Fará ainda a sua estreia com a Radio Kamer Filharmonie na Holanda e conduzirá Romeo e Julieta com a Opera North e The Rake’s Progress.
Biography
Martin André went to the Yehudi Menuhin School where he studied the piano. At Cambridge University he combined playing the piano with conducting. Now as a conductor he divides his time equally between the opera house and the concert platform. Concert appearances in the UK have included the Philharmonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, New London Sinfonia, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, London Concert Orchestra, City of London Chamber Orchestra, New Queen’s Hall Orchestra, as well as concerts at the Bournemouth and Edinburgh International Festivals and several broadcasts on BBC Radio.Abroad he works regularly with the Limburgs Symphonie Orkest in Holland, Orquestra Nacional do Porto and Remix Contemporary Ensemble in Portugal, and in Norway with Collegium Musicum, Tromsø Symfoniorkester and Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester. Visits to Australia took him to the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, and also the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with whom he released his first recording. He has also worked with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, including the finals of the Bernstein International Singing Competition, and the Peking Symphony Orchestra in Macau. Every year he visits Tirana, Albania, on an initiative with the British Council.He made his opera debut conducting for Welsh National Opera, with whom he spent many seasons as a resident conductor. During this time he worked on a wide variety of operas, particularly 19th century Italian repertoire. He continues to work across a broad range of composers, although is particularly recognised for his interpretations of Verdi, Mozart and Janáček.He has the rare distinction of being the only conductor to have performed for all the major British opera companies. Since leaving Welsh National Opera, he has made guest appearances at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Opera North, Opera 80 and Opera Northern Ireland. From 1993 to 1996 he was Music Director of English Touring Opera. He was also Music Director for the Opera North/RSC production of Showboat at the London Palladium. In 2000 he conducted a live televised version of The Marriage of Figaro for BBC TV, shot on Location in Oxfordshire.Internationally he has made numerous appearances in the opera houses of Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa and the USA.In 2005 he returned to Portugal for a Stravinsky and Offenbach programme with Remix, as well as the opening concert with of the new Casa da Música. In Norway he performed Handel’s complete Watermusic; in London Massenet’s opera Cendrillon at the Royal Academy of Music, and the first concert in the Tippett Centenary Festival at the Royal College of Music. That summer he made his debut in Italy at the Ravenna Festival with Martinů’s opera Julietta, and that autumn made his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf with Sullivan’s operetta The Gondoliers.In 2006 he had returned to the Limburgs Symphonie Orkest in Holland for a Beethoven and Mendelssohn programme, the Orquestra Nacional do Porto for Shostakovich and Shchedrin, and he created the Youth Orchestra of Portugal (OJCOM). This proved to be such a success that he was asked to repeat the project later in the year. The Orchestra was renamed Momentum Perpetuum by the players, and this project will continue in December.In England he conducted Massenet’s opera Thaïs for Grange Park, to enormous critical acclaim, Bizet’s La jolie fille de Perth at the Buxton Festival, Rigoletto for Opera North, and Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet with the Orchestra of Opera North. In July, at very short notice, he conducted a New Production of Offenbach’s Opera Blaubart at the Bregenz Festspiele.In 2007 he returned to the Limburgs Symphonie Orkest, Collegium Musicum Bergen and Orquestra Nacional do Porto. He made his debut with the Noord Nederlands Orkest and Central City Opera, Colorado, USA. In 2008 he will return to Opera North and debut with Garsington Opera.
He begins 2008 with the Opening Concert in The Nordic Season for Orquestra Nacional do Porto in Portugal. In February he will conduct Shostakovich’s massive 4th Symphony at the Royal College of Music in London. He follows this with 2 operas in England: Roméo et Juliette for Opera North, and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress for Garsington Opera. In the autumn he returns to Portugal to conduct Janathan Miller’s Production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, and then makes his debut with de radiokamer filharmonie of Holland, with a concert in their Janáček Festival in Utrecht. In December he will again do 2 concerts with Orquestra Nacional do Porto.
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