Andrew Gourlay

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Gourlay (born 1982) is a British conductor. He is currently Music Director of the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León).Born in Jamaica, Gourlay was subsequently raised in the Bahamas, the Philippines, Japan and the United Kingdom. He is of Russian ancestry through the Galitzine Family, with notable relatives including Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (Governor of Saint Petersburg at the time of the Revolution of 1905).Gourlay began his musical training on the piano and the trombone. As a trombonist in his early twenties, he played with such orchestras as the Philhamonia, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hallé Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. He was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, with whom he played under the baton of their founder, Claudio Abbado.Gourlay studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and University of Manchester, before specialising in conducting at the Royal College of Music in London, where he prepared orchestras for Bernard Haitink and Sir Roger Norrington. He acted as cover conductor for Kurt Masur, Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Sir Colin Davis, twice replacing Davis at the Barbican Centre, London. In 2010, he won First Prize at the Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition. From 2010 to 2012, he was assistant conductor to Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé.In 2014, Gourlay became principal guest conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. In 2015, the orchestra named Gourlay its next music director, with an initial contract from January 2016 to June 2019. This appointment is Gourlays first music directorship.Gourlay has worked worldwide as a guest conductor. He has twice conducted the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms. In opera, he has conducted for the Royal Opera House and Birmingham Opera Company, the latter in a critically acclaimed production of Tippetts The Ice Break in 2015. He made his American and German debuts in 2017, with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra respectively.

Bio from Wikipedia - See more on en.wikipedia.org Text under CC-BY-SA license

Playlist

Airtel Xstream

Hungama Play