June Whitfield

Andrew Mogrelia has had a varied career of concerts, recording and work with major dance companies. He has conducted many ensembles including the BBC orchestras, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Dutch Radio and Residentie orchestras, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony and Empyrean Ensemble (USA), Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Music Camp. He has worked with the English National, Dutch National, Finnish National, Norwegian National ballets, Netherlands Dance Theatre, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Australian Ballet, West Australian Ballet and American Ballet Theater. He has served as conductor-in-residence at Birmingham Conservatoire (1992–2002), co-music director at Dutch National Ballet (1992–1994), music director and principal conductor of San Francisco Ballet (2003–2005), leading the orchestra’s thirtieth anniversary concert (2005), music director of the Conservatory Orchestra in San Francisco (2005–2012), where he directed a residency for composer John Adams in 2007, conducting Harmonielehre in the composer’s presence and music director of Queensland Ballet (2013–2015). He has an extensive discography for Naxos and Marco Polo, with his complete Sleeping Beauty (8.550490–92) acclaimed as a ‘clear first choice’ by Gramophone magazine. He worked with the RTE National Symphony (Dublin, Ireland) in 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2016 and divides his work between Europe and Australia.