Andrew Litton
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Andrew Litton (born May 16, 1959, New York City) is an American orchestral conductor. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School, and holds both undergraduate and Masters degrees in music from Juilliard.
He was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1994. and is now its Conductor Laureate. He served for twelve seasons as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2006. He has been Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway since 2003. Litton was reported to have been passed over for the position of music director of English National Opera.[1]
Litton’s more than 60 recordings include a Grammy-winning William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast with Bryn Terfel and the Bournemouth Symphony, a critically-acclaimed set of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with pianist Stephen Hough, and a live performance recording of Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic (Grammy nomination), a Decca Walton Centennial boxed set, and the complete Tchaikovsky Symphonies with the Bournemouth Symphony, the complete Rachmaninov Symphonies with the Royal Philharmonic, Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and many Gershwin recordings, both as conductor and pianist, with the Dallas Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic.
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| Preceded by Rudolf Barshai |
Principal Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 1988–1994 |
Succeeded by Yakov Kreizberg |
| Preceded by Eduardo Mata |
Music Director, Dallas Symphony Orchestra 1994–2006 |
Succeeded by Jaap van Zweden (designate) |
| Preceded by Simone Young |
Principal Conductor, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra 2003– |
Succeeded by incumbent |
