Andrew Grams

As one of America’s most promising and talented young conductors, ANDREW GRAMS has already appeared with many of the great orchestras of the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., and the orchestras of Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey and others in the United States. On the international arena, he has conducted the Montreal Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn, the BBC Symphony Orchestra London, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Melbourne Symphony, the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia Rome, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague, the Hamburg Symphony, and the Malmo Symphony to name a few.

Maestro Grams was a protege of Franz Welser-Moest and served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 2004 to 2007.

Mr. Grams made his first subscription series appearance with the Cleveland Orchestra in May, 2006 conducting Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony and conducted his first series of full-length subscription concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra in November, 2006. He also led programs with the orchestra at the Blossom Music Center in 2006 and 2007 and returned to lead the orchestra again at the Blossom Music Center in July, 2010.

This season sees major subscription debuts for Mr Grams with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic (Amsterdam), the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He also makes debut appearances with the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Lugano, the North Carolina Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He returns no fewer than three different times to the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague) as well as to the RTE Symphony Orchestra Ireland (Dublin), the Limburgs Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra. 

Last season (2010-11) witnessed a major debut for Grams with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London which was highly acclaimed alongside debut appearances with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn, State Symphony Orchestra of Sao Paulo, the Louisville Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony and several others including an appearance at the Grant Park Festival in Chicago. Grams returned to the podium last season with the Residentie Orchestra several times including a Concertgebouw Hall appearance with that orchestra and also madewelcome repeat visits with the Hamburg Symphony, the Malmo Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa and the Utah Symphony among others.