Andrés Orozco-Estrada was born in December 1977 in Medellín (Colombia). After early studies of the violin he started taking conducting classes in 1992. He came to Vienna in 1997 where he was accepted in the master class of Uroš Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy, completing his degree with a guest conducting engagement with the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Wiener Musikverein in spring 2003.

In June 2004 – under the auspices of the Wiener Festwochen – Andrés Orozco-Estrada stepped in at short notice in a concert of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich performing Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with Eva Mei and Anton Bruckner’s 4th Symphony for which he was celebrated as “The Miracle of Vienna” in the Austrian press. This concert led to an intense cooperation between him and the orchestra, as well as to invitations for various international orchestras. In 2007 Andrés Orozco-Estrada was appointed new Principal Conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich starting his new position in autumn 2009 for a three year period.

In Mai 2007, Orozco-Estrada made his debut with the Basque National Orchestra (Orquesta de Euskadi) which led to a fruitful collaboration. In December 2008 he was designated Principal Conductor starting this position in the 2009/10 season.

From 2005-2009, Andrés Orozco-Estrada has been the Principal Conductor of Großes Orchester Graz “recreation”, giving regular season subscription concerts and performances at the “styriarte” festival in Graz.

In the past years Orozco-Estrada has regularly conducted the Bogotá Philharmonics and the Colombian National Orchestra. He guest-conducted orchestras like Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philharmoniker Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Bamberger Symphoniker, HR Sinfonieorchester, das Tiroler Symphonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia as well as the Slovak and the Slovenian Philharmonics.

Being Music Director of the Opera of Klosterneuburg from 2005 to 2007, he led productions of L'Italiana in Algeri, Fidelio and The Tales of Hoffmann. He also conducted Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, La Traviata, Don Carlos, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
Further opera projects are planned in Stuttgart (Staatsoper Stuttgart) and in Hamburg with a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola.

In 2010/11 he will be on tour through South-America with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Another tour with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich will lead him to the U.K. With that orchestra he will also be present at Grafenegg Music Festival. Besides he will give his debut at the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and guest-conduct the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, NDR Hannover, Staatsorchester Stuttgart and the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin. With the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie he will conduct the New Year’s concert 2011 at the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

A CD with Mahler’s 1st symphony, recorded during his debut concert with the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich at the Musikverein Vienna has been released at the end of March 2010 (Preiser Records).