Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson has conducted many of the leading orchestras in Australia and the US. Winner of the ABC- Westfield Young Conductor of the Year award in 1997, he was Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1998-2001, performing with the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. 

He also conducted performances at the New York City Ballet and with numerous other American orchestras. In Australia, he has appeared with the Queensland Symphony, the Tasmanian Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, the Canberra Symphony, the State Orchestra of Victoria, and the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, among numerous others. From 2007-2012 he led the Queensland Philanthropic 

Orchestra, a charitable music project that raised nearly $40,000 for Queensland medical research. He has established a long relationship with the Brisbane City Pops Orchestra, with whom he has been working regularly since 2008, and conductedAcis and Galatea for Springboard Opera in 2024.

An experienced music educator, Andrew served from 2000-2002 on the conducting faculty at the University of Southern California. He was Music Director of the inaugural Auckland Philharmonia Summer School in 2000, and from 2003-2008 held the same position with the Young Conservatorium Symphony at Griffith University.

Andrew studied flute at the Canberra School of Music, winning the Australian Flute Competition in 1995 before turning to conducting. He qualified as an optometrist in 2006 and is now a partner in private practice in Bardon.