Music Director

Andrei Feher

Music Director 

Highlights of the 2018/19 season included debuts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony and Norwegian Radio Orchestra and returns to Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra and I Musici di Montreal. Further recent highlights include the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Les Violons du Roy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Orchestre Métropolitain Montreal and Romanian Radio National Orchestra. In addition to his commitments with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, in 2019/20 Feher guest conducts orchestras including the RTVE Symphony Madrid, Romanian National Radio Orchestra and the Toronto Royal Conservatory Orchestra.

Having gained early experience as assistant to Fabien Gabel at the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, at the age of 22 Feher joined the Orchestre de Paris as Assistant Conductor to its Music Director, Paavo Järvi. During this time, he collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, Thomas Hengelbrock and Jaap van Zweden, as well as regularly conducting the orchestra in their popular Young Public concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris.

A strong advocate of contemporary music, Feher has recently performed works by Eric Champagne, Pierre Mercure, George Dimitrov, Ciprian Pop and Abigail Richardson, as well as the world premiere of Thierry Besancon’s opera for children Les Zoocrates with Opéra de Lausanne. In November 2015, Feher conducted the world premiere of Soleil Noir by Pierre Jodlowski with the Orchestre de Pau-Béarn,
which resulted in an immediate invitation to conduct the work in Toulouse in November 2016.

Born in Romania into a family of musicians, Feher began his musical education as a violinist in his hometown Satu-Mare before continuing his studies at the Montreal Conservatoire when his parents relocated to Canada.

Image credit: Hilary Gauld, One For The Wall