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Andris Poga has been the music director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra since 2013/2014 season. After a series of successful collaborations he has been invited back to the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, WDR Symphony Cologne, Munich Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

Poga has also conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Wiener Symphoniker, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre National de France, Shanghai Symphony and Sydney Symphonym among many others. Poga will commence his tenure as the Chief Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra starting the 2021/2022 season.

In 2010, Andris Poga won the First Prize of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition, which thrust him into the international scene. He became an assistant to Paavo Järvi at the Orchestre de Paris, and from 2012 to 2014 he worked as an assistant conductor for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.