Meet Our Conductors

Andrew Bast, Concert Orchestra

The newest member of GTCYS’ conducting team, Andrew Bast (Concert Orchestra) is also the new orchestra director at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School this year. He previously served as the chair of instrumental music and director of
orchestras at Bloomington Kennedy High School, where he taught for the last seven years. Prior to Kennedy, he was an assistant orchestra director at Hopkins High School. Andrew performs regularly with the Minnesota Symphonic Winds on trumpet and the pop group Kubla Khan (in which he is a principal songwriter) on electric bass. A graduate of St. Olaf College, he received his bachelor’s degree in music education, studying conducting with Steven Amundson and Dr. Timothy Mahr.