Andris Poga
Chief Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga was the Music Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2013 till 2021 and continues to collaborate with the LNSO as its Artistic Advisor.
Highlights of recent years have included concerts with the leading orchestras of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Scandinavia. After the first successful collaborations, he has been invited back to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg, WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and many others.
He has also conducted the Wiener Symphoniker, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
The season of 2022/2023 includes the subscription concert series with both the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, tour of France with the latter, as well as returns to the US, Japan and China and to the Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre National de France. This season, the conductor also debuts with the Goteborgs Symfoniker, Brussels Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Konzerthausorchester Berlin, among others.
In 2010, he was the First Prize winner of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition, which thrust him into the international scene. In the years 2011–2014 he was an assistant to Paavo Jarvi at the Orchestre de Paris, and from 2012 to 2014 he served as an assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Andris Poga has graduated the conducting department of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. He also studied philosophy at the University of Latvia and conducting at the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.
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