Andrei Feher quickly earned distinction for his musical maturity and integrity, natural authority on the podium, and for his imaginative and intelligent approach to programming. At the age of 26, Feher was appointed the new Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, effective in August 2018. Having gained early experience as an assistant to Fabien Gabel with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, at 22 Feher joined the Orchestre de Paris as Assistant Conductor to that orchestra’s Music Director Paavo Järvi. During this time, he collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, Thomas Hengelbrock and Jaap van Zweden. Born in Romania into a family of musicians, Feher began his musical education as a violinist in his hometown of Satu-Mare before pursuing studies at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal after his parents relocated to Canada.