Gavriel Heine

Conductor

Gavriel Heine was born in New Jersey, USA. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire as a cellist, and studied opera and symphony conducting at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire under Ilya Musin and Leonid Korchmar. He holds a Masters degree in conducting from the University of Indiana, Bloomington, where he studied with Imre Palló, Thomas Baldner and David Effron.

A staff conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre, Gavriel Heine has led performances of Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth, La Bohème, Il Trittico, Jenůfa and the double bill of L’Heure espagnole and Gianni Schicchi, as well as rehearsing Tosca and The Turn of the Screw. He also conducts the concert programmes in the Academy of Young Theatre-Goers subscription series, which brings opera and ballet to younger audiences in an interactive, multi-media environment.

He has conducted the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in symphony programmes at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre and on tour at the Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland.

Recent appearances as a guest conductor have included his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, numerous engagements with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, an appearance with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, performances with the Symphony Orchestra of Arad at Vienna’s Stadthalle and concerts with the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra (Moscow), the State Academic Capella Orchestra (St Petersburg), and the St Michel Strings (Finland). Following a televised performance with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2007 Valery Gergiev master class, Gavriel Heine was engaged by the Rotterdam Philharmonic as Assistant Conductor for the 2007 and 2008 Gergiev Festivals, where he led rehearsals of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, Tishchenko’s Yaroslavna Suite, Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and Stravinsky’s Orpheus.

From 2003–2007, Gavriel Heine served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kharkov “Slobozhanskii” Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), conducting the ensemble in over forty programmes at home and on international tours. He led the Kharkov Symphony Orchestra during the final rounds of the VII and VIII International Vladimir Krainev Young Pianists’ Competitions.

For more information, visit www.gavrielheine.com
Upcoming performances:
18 February My Fair Lady
19 February My Fair Lady
19 February My Fair Lady
20 February My Fair Lady
4 March In the world of ancient legends and traditions
18 March Die Zauberflöte
31 March Die Zauberflöte
It has been a long time indeed since the public has been presented with a performance that matches the composer’s idea as well as this refined performance of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet overture. The Sinfonieorchester Basel under the energetic, elegant and purposeful conductor Gavriel Heine (who replaced Nikolaj Znaider due to illness) depicted a world of sounds with filigree precision, understanding the course of events that we all know: it was a sound that had been polished to perfection.
Basellandschaftliche Zeitung
It was a pleasant surprise that Gavriel Heine made no attempt to prove that he is a brilliant debutant. With all his powers he wanted just one thing – to show how brilliant a composer Mozart was and what stunning music he wrote. The conductor was there and the conductor wasn’t there: he was the invisible man, but in actual fact he was in full control of the situation.
Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti