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Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
About Andrey Boreyko
- Andrey Boreyko (Russian: ?????´? ??´???????? ????´???, Andrey Viktorovich Boreyko; born 22 July 1957, in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian conductor.
- He has Polish ancestry on his father's side and Russian ancestry on his mother's side.At the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, Boreyko studied conducting (with Elisabeta Kudriavtseva and Alexander Dmitriev), graduating summa cum laude.
- In 1987 he won diplomas and prizes at The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, and he was a prize winner in 1989 at the Kirill Kondrashin conductors' competition in Amsterdam. Boreyko was music director of the Jena Philharmonic between 1998 and 2003.
- With the orchestra, Boreyko received awards for the most innovative concert programming in three consecutive seasons from the German Music Critics (Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband).
- He now has the title of honorary conductor with the Jena Philharmonic.
- Boreyko served as Principal Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hamburger Symphoniker) from 2004 until his sudden resignation in November 2007.
- He was principal conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2010.
- In May 2008, Boreyko was announced as the next General Music Director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2009–2010 season, for an initial contract of 5 years.
- In February 2012, the orchestra announced the scheduled conclusion of Boreyko's DĂĽsseldorf at the end of the 2013-2014 season.In Canada, Boreyko was principal guest conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2003.
- He was Music Director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006.
- Overall, Boreyko received praise for his musicianship during his Winnipeg tenure, and contributed financial assistance to the orchestra during the financially troubled 2002–2003 season.
- However, he also received criticism for a lack of community outreach, and not fulfilling an intention to establish residency in Winnipeg.Boreyko was music director of the National Orchestra of Belgium from 2012 to 2017.
- He serves as principal guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and of the Orquesta SinfĂłnica de Euskadi.
- In April 2013, Boreyko was named the next Music Director for the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic, as of the 2014-2015 season, his first appointment with an orchestra in the United States.
- He served as Music Director Designate for the 2013-2014 season.
- In September 2018, the Warsaw Philharmonic announced the appointment Boreyko as its next artistic director and music director, effective with the 2019-2020 season.Boreyko's discography includes Arvo Pärt's Lamentate and Valentin Silvestrov’s Symphony No.
- 6, both recorded with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) for ECM Records.
- In 2006, Hänssler Classic released a live recording, also with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.
- 4 with the world premiere recording of the Suite, op.
- 29a from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, also by Shostakovich.
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