Biography
André is the Principal Flute of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and performs regularly as guest principal flute with the Scottish BBC, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Philharmonia Zürich, Spira Mirabilis, Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Sinfónica de Barcelona (OBC), Gran Teatro del Liceu, Malaysian Philharmonic and Orchestra Leonore.
He is not only an experienced orchestral musician, but also a passionate chamber musician. When he is not playing in the orchestra you can find him performing with the wind quintet Azahar Ensemble, the Natalia Ensemble – a symphonic ensemble which he founded and where he is the artistic director and arranger – or in one of his duo projects with harpist Bleuenn Le Friec or guitarist Pedro Mateo González.
His career as a soloist has taken him around Spain, Germany, Poland, Georgia and UK, with orchestras such as the Sinfónica de Galicia, Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Dresden Staatskapelle, Scottish Chamber, Georgian Sinfonietta or Filharmonia Zabrzańska and conductors Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Zsolt Nagy, Alejandro Posada, Lanfranco Marcelletti, Vladimir Jurowski, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, Joana Carneiro, Guillermo García-Calvo, Vakhtang Kakhidze, Maxim Emelyanychev or Peter Whelan, among others.
He loves sharing his passion for music with his students. He was a flute and chamber music teacher at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón between 2013 and 2020 and since 2020 he is the flute teacher at the Fundación Barenboim-Said. He also gives numerous masterclasses and courses around Europe and coaches youth orchestras such as JONDE, OJA, JONC, JOGV, OSIM or OSAV each season.