Yoel Gamzou
BBC Philharmonic - Mahler 9th Symphony
An interpreter of extraordinary vision and intensity, Gamzou delivered Mahler's Ninth with burning clarity and emotional power, navigating the symphony's deep structure with poetic finesse.
The Arts Desk (May 14, 2025)
OperaWire.com (July 26, 2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
OPÉRA NATIONAL DE MONTPELLIER
Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana
Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
Oct 3/5
STUTTGART PHILHARMONIC
Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Prokofiev: Suite Romeo & Juliette
Nov 13/14/15
SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1
Walton - Symphony No. 1
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BBC PHILHARMONIC
Programs TBC
Feb 10
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Mahler - Symphony No. 10
BAVARIAN STATE OPERA
Beethoven - Fidelio
March 8/13/15
HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Weber - Der Freischütz
Apr 23/26/28, May 3
MUNICH OPERA FESTIVAL
Beethoven - Fidelio
July 12/15/18
Biography
The Israeli-American conductor and composer Yoel Gamzou is one of the most remarkable representatives of a new generation of conductors. His interpretations are of extraordinary intensity – thrilling and deeply personal. He begins the 2025/26 season with a variety of high-profile engagements. He will be returning to the BBC Philharmonic, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, among others. On the operatic side, he will conduct Fidelio again at the Bavarian State Opera – also at the Munich Opera Festival – and Der Freischütz at the Hamburg State Opera, having already conducted the production's premiere series there. He will also make his debut at the Opéra National de Montpellier with Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci .
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In the summer of 2025, Gamzou conducted Salome at the Baltic Opera Festival, followed by a tour with the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. In the 2024/25 season, he opened with Der Freischütz at the Hamburg State Opera and made his debuts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and the Essen Philharmonic. Return engagements have taken him to the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburg Young Philharmonic, and once again to the Vienna State Opera in Salome . The season concluded with the world premiere of Elmar Lampson's Wellen at the Theater Bremen.
In 2023, he founded the oneMusic Orchestra, which made its debut at the Beethovenfest Bonn. From 2017 to 2022, he was General Music Director of the Theater Bremen, where he conducted productions of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District , Die Fledermaus , Die tote Stadt , L'Étoile , Der Rosenkavalier , Jenůfa , and Carmen , among others.
Gamzou has worked as a guest conductor at the Hamburg State Opera ( Carmen , Tosca , Die tote Stadt , Der Freischütz ), the Bavarian State Opera ( Il Segreto di Susanna , Schön ist die Welt , Die tote Stadt ), the Vienna State Opera ( Tosca , Die Fledermaus , Die tote Stadt , Salome ), the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Tosca ), the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden ( Turandot , Carmen , The Merry Widow ), the Gothenburg Opera ( Die schweigsame Frau ) and the Aalto Theater Essen ( Der Freischütz ). He has also conducted Marina Abramović's The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas at the English National Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Greek National Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro di San Carlo and the Bavarian State Opera.
As a concert conductor, Gamzou has worked with orchestras such as the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Museumsorchester , German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic.
In 2006, he founded the International Mahler Orchestra (IMO) with musicians from over 25 countries. His completion of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony was premiered in 2010 and published by Schott Music. From 2012 to 2015, he was First Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Staatstheater Kassel.
Gamzou is also active as a composer. Most recently, he created his large-scale work The Portrait – Archaeology of an Obsession for orchestra and speaker, based on texts by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was published by Schott Music and premiered in January 2025 at the Konzerthaus Berlin – under Gamzou's direction with Sir Tim Rice as speaker.
He has received many awards for his work, including the ECHO Klassik Award (Emerging Artist – Conductor, 2017), the Princess Margriet Award (2013), and the Berenberg Culture Prize (2012). Raised in New York, London, and Tel Aviv, Yoel Gamzou had the honor of being the last student of Carlo Maria Giulini.
2025/26
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