Andris Poga
Conductor Andris Poga is a promising figure among the younger generation of conductors from the Baltic countries, having gained experience with orchestras in several countries and learned to appreciate their varied ways. He became the music director of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in 2021.
Poga was born on June 29, 1980, in the Latvian capital of Riga. He attended the University of Latvia from 2000 to 2004, studying philosophy, but just as he was about to begin writing a thesis on Descartes, Kant, and Husserl, he switched to music and took courses as a trumpeter and wind band conductor at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, studying with Jānis Puriņš, and then worked with Viesturs Gailis as a student of orchestral conducting. After graduating in 2007, Poga immediately began his career as conductor of the Riga Professional Symphonic Band. He also made an appearance that year with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and earned a Grand Music Award for Debut of the Year.
Poga continued to enter contests, and a first prize at the 2010 Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition in Montpellier, France, boosted his career. Resigning his Riga job, he landed assistant conductor posts with Paavo Järvi at the Orchestre de Paris in 2011 and with the then conductorless Boston Symphony Orchestra the following year; conductor Andris Nelsons soon came on board as music director. Poga maintained his ties with Latvia, conducting the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Riga, and the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, as well as a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Riga Opera House. He resigned his Boston and Paris posts in 2014, for he had been appointed music director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra the previous autumn. During his tenure there, he led the group in recordings for the Skani and Ondine labels; for the latter, he conducted a performance of the Oboe Concerto of composer Peteris Vasks, released in 2021. That year, he left the Latvian National Symphony to take up the baton with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.
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14 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Weinberg, Dutilleux: Cello Concertos
Edgar Moreau, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Warner Classics le 1 sept. 2023
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Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & 7
Tommaso Pratola, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Zanda Švēde, Egils Upatnieks, Andris Poga, Mārtiņš Circenis
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 2 sept. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Oceanic
Iveta Apkalna, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Berlin Classics le 21 avr. 2023
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Pēteris Vasks: Oboe Concerto, Vēstījums & Lauda
Albrecht Mayer, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 3 sept. 2021
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Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 and Aria per corde
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Iveta Apkalna, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 4 févr. 2022
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Arturs Maskats: Accordion Concerto, Tango, Cantus diatonicus & My River Runs to Thee
Artūrs Noviks, Ksenija Sidorova, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 6 janv. 2023
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Rolf Wallin: Five Seasons, Stride & Other Orchestral Works
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eldbjørg Hemsing, Wu Wei, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 1 mars 2024
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Cello Concertos of 1966
Maximilian Hornung, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Myrios Classics le 2 nov. 2018
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš: Violin Concerto, Concerto for 5 Percussionists and Orchestra, Beatae Voces Tenebrae
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez SKANI le 6 nov. 2020
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Dārziņš & Ivanovs: Born in 1906
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Reinis Zariņš, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez SKANI le 15 juin 2018
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Ivanovs & Karlsons: 1945
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez SKANI le 15 juin 2018
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Latvian Radio Archive: Volfgangs Dārziņš
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga, Jautrīte Putniņa
Classique - Paru chez SKANI le 5 févr. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cello Concertos of 1966
Maximilian Hornung, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
Classique - Paru chez Myrios Classics le 2 nov. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beatae Voces Tenebrae
Andris Poga, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez SKANI le 14 juill. 2013
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo