Bio
ANDREW CONSTANTINE, conductor
Andrew Constantine is Music Director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic as well as the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, one of the longest established symphony orchestras in the US. In 2004 he was appointed Associate Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by Yuri Temirkanov in 2004, a position he held through 2007. Temirkanov has described Constantine as, “The real thing. A serious conductor!” The legendary teacher Ilya Musin also called Constantine, “a brilliant representative of the conducting art”.
Born in England he studied firstly with John Carewe and Norman Del Mar, then later with Ferdinand Leitner at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and Leonard Bernstein at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. As a result of winning first prize in the Donatella Flick/Accademia Italiana Conducting Competition he furthered his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory with Musin and worked as assistant to the late Giuseppe Sinopoli. This was soon followed by his London debut at the Royal Festival Hall conducting the London Philharmonic. Critical acclaim was unanimous.
Constantine works regularly with nearly all of the finest British orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as having strong relationships with a number of European and Scandinavian orchestras including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Recent and upcoming engagements include the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony, Boise Philharmonic and Quad City Symphony and future engagements include performances with the City of Mexico Philharmonic, National Philharmonic of Taiwan, George Enescu Philharmonic and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the US Andrew Constantine has developed a reputation for imaginative and compelling programming as well as a profound commitment to music education. In 2003 he was awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Music by the University of Leicester for his “contribution to music” and was also awarded a highly prestigious British NESTA Fellowship.
October 2011
Biography
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