Operatic roles include Tamino The Magic Flute (English National Opera); Flute A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Jacquino Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival); Ferrando Così fan tutte (Glyndebourne Touring Opera); Nemorino L'elisir d'amore (Opera North); Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress (La Scala, La Monnaie and Opéra de Lyon and released on DVD); Vere Billy Budd (his Houston Grand Opera debut), Tito La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lyon), Shepherd Tristan und Isolde (Glyndebourne Festival), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Opera National de Lyon), Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw (Houston Grand Opera), Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Welsh National Opera), Flamand Capriccio (Grange Park Opera), Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia for Den Norske Opera and Max in Der Freischutz for Opera Comique, Paris under Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Concert engagements include Jaquino Fidelio, Francesco Benvenuto Cellini and Mozart Requiem for the LSO/Sir Colin Davis (all recorded for the LSO Live CD label); Novice Billy Budd (LSO/Harding, recorded on EMI/Virgin Classics); Tom Rakewell The Rake's Progress (Stresa Festival/Noseda), Orfeo in Haydn Orfeo e Euridice (Boston Handel and Haydn Society/Norrington); Tobia Il Ritorna di Tobia (OAE/Norrington); Mozart Requiem and Young Man in Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane (LPO/Jurowski); Finzi Intimations of Immortality (BBCSO/Daniel); Mozart Mass in C Minor (Hallé Orchestra/Elder); St. Matthew Passion (Netherlands Philharmonic/Colin Davis); Elgar Spirit of England at the 2007 Last Night of the BBC Proms and a tour of Handel’s Il Trionfo with the Gabrieli Consort and Players with Paul McCreesh. Performances of Britten include Nocturne (BBC National Orchestra of Wales), Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (CBSO, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales and at the BBC Proms with the Nash Ensemble/Edward Gardner), Les Illuminations (Edinburgh International Festival/Scottish Ensemble and with the Orchestre de Picardie), Mozart Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston and Britten’s Nocturne with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Equally passionate about song repertoire, Andrew gives numerous recitals in Europe and the UK and appears regularly with the pianists Julius Drake, Roger Vignoles, Iain Burnside and Malcolm Martineau.
Andrew's fast growing discography includes four solo albums (‘Strauss Songs’ with Roger Vignoles for Hyperion; ‘On Wenlock Edge’ with the Dante Quartet/Simon Crawford Philips for Signum Classics; ‘The Dark Pastoral’ with Julius Drake and Simon Russell Beale for Altara Classics and ‘The Curlew’ with Simon Lepper for Landor Records) and two shared recital discs (‘On Buying A Horse’ and a recording of Liszt songs both with Iain Burnside for Signum Classics). Andrew has recently released his first orchestral album of Gluck, Berlioz and Mozart arias for Signum Classics.
Engagements during 2011/12 include Beethoven Symphony 9 with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Musikkolegium Winterthur and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Messiah with the Tonhalle in Zürich, Elijah with The Britten Sinfonia, Die Jahreszeiten with the Bamberg Symphoniker. In opera Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia for Welsh National Opera, Ferrando Cosi fan Tutte in Turin and Baron Lummer in Strauss’ Intermezzo at the Buxton Festival. Future appearances include Beethoven Symphony 9 with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia for English National Opera, Quint Turn of the Screw in concert performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Tamino Die Zauberflöte in Toulon and staged performances of Messiah with Opéra de Lyon.
Forthcoming concerts with Andrew Kennedy:
Salonen conducts in London
Sep 27 2012, 19:30 - Royal Festival Hall
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Beethoven's Choral Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 1 with Leif Ove Andsnes






