Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Energy, elegance, and an exceptional charismatic spirit define the musical personality of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada has been appointed Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
and will start his artistic collaboration at the beginning of the 2026/27 season.

At the start of the 2025/26 season, he is taking over as general Music Director of the City of Cologne and as Kapellmeister of the Gürzenich Orchestra. In his inaugural season he is focusing on the orchestra’s Romantic tradition – in the course of its history the orchestra has given many important world premieres of works by Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss.
At the Cologne Opera he will be conducting performances of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, among other works. At the same time, he is continuing his work with the Kronberg Academy and helping to promote the careers of young and talented musicians in Cologne through an international competition for composers.

Since the start of the 2023/24 season Andrés Orozco-Estrada has been Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI in Turin and will be touring Spain with them in November 2025.

During the next season, his engagements will take him beyond Cologne and Turin to concert halls all over the world, where he will be working with many eminent international artists. Andrés Orozco-Estrada made his Tanglewood Festival debut this summer and returned to the Lucerne Festival. He was also Artist in Residence at the Rheingau Music Festival, where he presented three different programs.

Other guest appearances during the season include concerts with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He will additionally be conducting the New Year’s Eve Concert with the Dresden Staatskapelle, which will be broadcast live on German television.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada was Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 2014 and 2022, Principal Conductor of the hr (Hesse Radio) Symphony Orchestra from 2014 to 2021 and Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 2020 to 2022.