Andrew Pogson
Host
Andrew Pogson is a concert producer, director and presenter with more than twenty five years in the music industry, and the founder and Creative Director of Melbourne's Concert Lab.
For over a decade he was Head of Presentations and Senior Manager, Special Projects at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conceiving and producing multiple world premieres — from the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular to film music projects with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, all the way to The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra — and programming concerts with artists from Sting and Randy Newman to Tim Minchin. He conceived and produced both Flight Facilities Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Symphonica with Armand van Helden, each Helpmann-nominated for Best Australian Contemporary Concert, with the former's recording winning the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.
As a presenter, he co-created and hosts Art of the Score live in concert, performing with every one of Australia's major symphony orchestras and internationally with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Auckland Philharmonia.