Orozco-Estrada has been appointed Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and will start his artistic collaboration at the beginning of the 2026/27 season.

Since autumn 2025, he has held the position of General Music Director of the City of Cologne and Gürzenich Kapellmeister. In his inaugural season, he is focusing on the Gürzenich-Orchester’s Romantic tradition—in the course of its history the orchestra has given many important world premieres of works by Brahms, Mahler, and Richard Strauss.

At the Cologne Opera he conducts performances of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, among other works. At the same time, he continues his work with the Kronberg Academy and helps promote the careers of young and talented musicians in Cologne through an international competition for composers.

Since the start of the 2023/24 season, Orozco-Estrada has been Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin and toured Spain with the ensemble in November 2025.

During the next season, his engagements take him beyond Cologne and Turin to concert halls all over the world, where he will work with many eminent international artists.

Orozco-Estrada made his Tanglewood Festival debut last summer and returned to the Lucerne Festival. He was also Artist in Residence at the Rheingau Music Festival, where he presented three different programs.

Other guest appearances during the season include concerts with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also conducted the New Year’s Eve Concert with the Dresden Staatskapelle, broadcast live on German television.

Orozco-Estrada was Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra between 2014 and 2022, Principal Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony from 2014 to 2021, and Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra from 2020 to 2022.

Among the international opera houses where he has appeared are the Vienna, Berlin, and Dresden State Operas and La Scala, Milan, and the leading orchestras he has conducted include the Berlin, Vienna, London, and New York philharmonics as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and, in Asia, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada was born in Medellín, Colombia, and began studying the violin in his early youth, switching to conducting at the age of 15. In 1997 he began a course of study at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts, where he has been professor of orchestral conducting since 2022.