Horia Andreescu si orchestra Virtuozii din Bucuresti
Horia Andreescu
is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, founder and conductor of Bucharest Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and Professor of Conducting at the National University of Music Bucharest.
For more than eighteen years he was the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Romanian Radio Orchestras and Choruses. During the 80s and 90s Horia Andreescu was Permanent Guest Conductor of three leading German orchestras: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and Mecklenburg Staatskapelle Schwerin.
As a guest conductor Horia Andreescu has led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, the Vienna, Jerusalem, Icelandic, and BBC Scotland Symphony Orchestras, the Vienna, Leipzig, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Madrid, Katowice, and Ljubljana Radio Orchestras, The Netherlands Radio’s Philharmonic, Symphony, and Chamber Orchestras, the Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Budapest, and Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of Arena di Verona, Collegium Musicum Copenhagen, and The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra.
He works with the most important Romanian players and singers, and amongst his foreign partners are Maxim Vengerov, Boris Berezovsky, Elisabeth Leonskaia, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Oleg Kogan, Vladimir Repin, Ileana Cotrubaş, Angela Gheorghiu, Bernarda Fink, Anita Hartig, Misha Maisky, Gustav Rivinius, Victor Tretiakov, Leonidas Kavakos, Natalia Gutman, Michael Roll, Dimitri Alexeev, Rudolf Buchbinder, Zoltan Kocsis, Eliso Virsaladze, Sharon Kam, Chistian Lindberg, Nicola Benedetti, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Thousands of minutes of music conducted by Horia Andreescu are preserved in live or studio recordings in the sound archives of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, Deutschlandradio Berlin, West German Broadcasting Cologne, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and Israel Broadcasting Authority.
His rich discography includes over 60 recordings released on Attacca, Cultuur En Media (The Netherlands), Naxos/Marco Polo, Bayer Records, RCA-Read Seal, Hastedt, C.P.O. (Germany), Aksak (France), Olympia (United Kingdom), Electrecord, Artexim, and Casa Radio Publishing House (Romania).
Bucharest Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1988 by Horia Andreescu and brings together elite musicians from George Enescu Philharmonic, National Radio Orchestra, and National University of Music Bucharest. Its repertoire covers a wide stylistic range, from the 16th century to contemporaneity, being focused on the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
The ensemble performs regularly in Bucharest and other important Romanian cultural centres. It toured extensively in Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Bucharest Virtuosi recorded for Electrecord, Artexim (Romania), Olympia (United Kingdom), and Q Disc (The Netherlands) labels.
From the beginning, Bucharest Virtuosi’s concerts were considered outstanding musical events by public and critics alike. Amongst the prestigious artists and ensembles with whom they have collaborated are Ton Koopman, Paul Goodwin, Maxim Vengerov, Misha Maisky, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Abdel-Rahman El Bacha, Angela Gheorghiu, Marin Constantin, Dan Grigore, Valentin Gheorghiu, Ruxandra Donose, Mihaela Ursuleasa, Madrigal National Chamber Choir and Vienna Boys’ Choir.
