Orchestre classique de Montréal Names New Music Director

Romanian-Canadian conductor Andrei Feher will step into the role

The Orchestre classique de Montréal has announced that Andrei Feher will serve as its new Music Director, beginning with the 2025/26 season. He succeeds Jacques Lacombe, who stepped down in July 2024, having served less than two years of his initial five-year term.

Born in Romania, Feher arrived in Montréal at the age of 13, where he studied the violin at the Conservatoire musique de Montréal with Johanne Arel and Raffi Armenian. His conducting career began early, and after working as the assistant to Fabien Gabel at the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, aged just 22, Feher became the Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre de Paris, where he worked under Paavo Järvi.

From 2018 to 2023, he was Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and was just 26 at the time of his appointment, making him one of the youngest conductors to hold such a position with a Canadian orchestra.

As guest conductor, he has appeared with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Les Violons du Roy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, and the Romanian Radio National Orchestra.

"It is a great privilege and pleasure to begin this new chapter with the passionate musicians of the Orchestre classique de Montréal," Feher said. "My recent experience with the Orchestra was truly a heartfelt connection, and I’m very much looking forward to sharing our mutual love for music with the Montreal community."