André de Ridder

André de Ridder is a German conductor of classical music based in Freiburg im Breisgau and working all over the world.

[1] His experiential work includes cooperations with the British band These New Puritans, with jazz musician Uri Caine and composers Nico Muhly and Owen Pallett.

In the field of opera, de Ridder has conducted among others works by Mozart, Leoš Janáček and Hans Werner Henze.

In 2013 he achieved an enormous success in Australia, conducting the sound track of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Sydney Opera House and then again at the Symphony in the Domain and at the Adelaide Festival.

De Ridder is the co-curator and conductor of Unclassified Live, a series of genre-defying concerts at the Southbank Centre based on the BBC Radio 3 programme.