Andrey Boreyko

Boreyko has Polish ancestry on his father's side and Russian ancestry on his mother's side.{{cite web | author=Evgeny Klimakin | title=Between Two Civilisations: An Interview with Andrey Boreyko | url=https://culture.pl/en/article/between-two-civilisations-an-interview-with-andrey-boreyko | work=Culture.pl (Adam Mickiewicz Institute) | date=16 June 2017 | accessdate=23 September 2018}}

Boreyko was born in Saint Petersburg. At the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, Boreyko studied conducting (with Elisabeta Kudriavtseva and Alexander Dmitriev), graduating summa cum laude. In 1987 he won diplomas and prizes at The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, and he was a prize winner in 1989 at the Kirill Kondrashin conductors' competition in Amsterdam.

Boreyko was music director of the Jena Philharmonic between 1998 and 2003. With the orchestra, Boreyko received awards for the most innovative concert programming in three consecutive seasons from the German Music Critics (Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband).{{cite news | author=Rian Evans | title=CBSO/Boreyko | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1322502,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=8 October 2004 | accessdate=23 December 2007}} He now has the title of honorary conductor with the Jena Philharmonic. Boreyko served as Principal Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (Hamburger Symphoniker) from 2004 until his resignation in November 2007.{{cite news | author=Kevin Shihoten | title=Jeffrey Tate Replaces Andrey Boreyko as Hamburg Symphony Chief Conductor | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/7313.html | work=Playbill Arts | date=5 November 2007 | accessdate=23 December 2007}} He was principal conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2010. In May 2008, Boreyko was announced as the next General Music Director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2009–2010 season, for an initial contract of 5 years.{{cite news | author=Ilja Stephan | title=Andrey Boreyko geht zu den Düsseldorfer Symphonikern | url=https://www.welt.de/hamburg/article2083413/Andrey_Boreyko_geht_zu_den_Duesseldorfer_Symphonikern.html | work=Die Welt | date=9 June 2008 | accessdate=11 February 2009}} In February 2012, the orchestra announced the scheduled conclusion of Boreyko's Düsseldorf at the end of the 2013–2014 season.{{cite press release|url=http://www.duesseldorf.de/presse/pld/d2012/d2012_02/d2012_02_10/12020910_161.pdf |title=GMD Boreyko bleibt in Düsseldorf bis Ende der Saison 2013/2014 |publisher=Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf |date=10 February 2012 |accessdate=17 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610225143/http://www.duesseldorf.de/presse/pld/d2012/d2012_02/d2012_02_10/12020910_161.pdf |archivedate=10 June 2015 }}{{cite news | author=Regine Müller | title=GMD-Kandidatenschau mit Mario Venzago | url=http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/kultur/gmd-kandidatenschau-mit-mario-venzago-aid-1.3108556 | work=Die Welt | date=17 December 2012 | accessdate=17 November 2013}}

In Canada, Boreyko was principal guest conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2003. He was music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006.{{cite news | author=Ben Mattison | title=Music Director Andrey Boreyko to Leave Winnipeg Symphony in 2006 | url=http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/1117.html | work=Playbill Arts | date=7 January 2005 | accessdate=23 December 2007}} Boreyko received praise for his musicianship during his Winnipeg tenure, and contributed financial assistance to the orchestra during the financially troubled 2002–2003 season.{{cite news | url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/31343579.html | title=Leaving WSO 'out of the question,' Boreyko says | work=Winnipeg Free Press | author=Morley Walker | date=22 May 2003 | accessdate=28 February 2009}}

Boreyko was music director of the National Orchestra of Belgium from 2012 to 2017.{{cite press release | url=http://www.nob-onb.be/no_cache/en/home/news/n/hugh-wolff-wordt-de-nieuwe-vaste-dirigent-van-het-nationaal-orkest-van-belgie/id/45 | title=Hugh Wolff becomes the new chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra | publisher=National Orchestra of Belgium | date=26 February 2016 | accessdate=2 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419000029/http://www.nob-onb.be/no_cache/en/home/news/n/hugh-wolff-wordt-de-nieuwe-vaste-dirigent-van-het-nationaal-orkest-van-belgie/id/45 | archive-date=19 April 2016 | url-status=dead }} He serves as principal guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi. In April 2013, Boreyko was named the next music director for the Naples Philharmonic, in Florida, as of the 2014–2015 season, his first appointment with an orchestra in the United States. He served as Music Director Designate for the 2013–2014 season.{{cite news | url=http://www.naplesnews.com/entertainment/music/andrey-boreyko-next-director-naples-philharmonic | title=Andrey Boreyko named music director of Naples Philharmonic Orchestra | work=Naples Daily News | author=Harriet Howard Heithaus | date=19 April 2013 | accessdate=10 February 2015}}{{cite press release | url=http://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/2013/04/andrey-boreyko-appointed-music-director-naples-philharmonic-orchestra | title=Andrey Boreyko Appointed Music Director of Naples Philharmonic Orchestra | publisher=HarrisonParrott | date=20 April 2013 | accessdate=25 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025230617/http://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/2013/04/andrey-boreyko-appointed-music-director-naples-philharmonic-orchestra | archive-date=25 October 2014 | url-status=dead }} Boreyko concluded his tenure with the Naples Philharmonic in 2022.

In September 2018, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra announced the appointment Boreyko as its next artistic director and music director, effective with the 2019–2020 season.{{cite press release| url=http://filharmonia.pl/aktualnosci_en/andrzej-boreyko-becomes-the-artistic-director-and-music-director-of-the-warsaw-philharmonic-orchestra-from-the-2019-2020-season | title=Andrzej Boreyko at the WarsawPhil from the 2019/20 season | date=13 September 2018 | publisher=Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra | accessdate=23 September 2018}} Boreyko is scheduled to conclude his Warsaw National Philharmonic tenure at the close of the 2023–2024 season.{{cite news | title=Krzysztof Urbański takes over Warsaw Philharmonic | url=https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/artykul/3320426,krzysztof-urbanski-takes-over-warsaw-philharmonic | work=Polskie Radio | author= | date=19 January 2024 | access-date=24 January 2024}}

Boreyko's discography includes Arvo Pärt's Lamentate and Valentin Silvestrov's Symphony No. 6,{{cite news | author=Andrew Clements | title=Silvestrov: Symphony No 6, SWR Stuttgart Radio SO/Boreyko | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2087333,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=25 May 2007 | accessdate=23 December 2007}} both recorded with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) for ECM Records. In 2006, Hänssler Classic released a live recording, also with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 with the world premiere recording of the Suite, op. 29a from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, also by Shostakovich.

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