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GUEST CONDUCTOR, ROMEO & JULIET

Gavriel Heine

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Biography

One of the most exciting conducting talents of his generation, Gavriel Heine is currently a resident conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia and Music Director of Northern Lights Festival Opera in Minnesota, USA.

Born in the United States and educated in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Heine was one of the last students of the legendary conducting professor Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and follows a long line of conductors who were deeply influenced by the great exponent of the Leningrad school of conducting.  In 2007, Valery Gergiev invited Heine to make his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he has since led over 400 performances of opera, ballet and symphonic repertoire – including the operas Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth, La forza del destino, Pagliacci, La bohème, Tosca, Il Trittico, Pelléas et Mélisande, Jenůfa, L’heure Espagnole/Gianni Schicchi, Bluebeard’s Castle and Turn of the Screw, special versions of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, A Love for Three Oranges and Wagner’s Ring cycle, as well as the ballets The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Sylvia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Firebird, Rite of Spring, Apollo, Le Spectre de la Rose, The Swan, Paquita Grand Pas, Jewels, Bambi/In the Jungle, Chopiniana, Carnaval, Scheherazade, Cinderella, Symphony in C, Raymonda, Paquita (2017 full version) and La Bayadere. At the Mariinsky Theatre he premiered Robert Carsen’s production of My Fair Lady (co-production with the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Delibes/Ashton’s Sylvia and Bambi/In the Jungle.

Heine has appeared with the company on tour to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Theatre, The Kennedy Center, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley and the Brooklyn Academy of Music – all to great critical acclaim.

As a guest conductor, Heine has appeared with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, La Verdi Orchestra of Milan, Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia (Moscow), the St. Petersburg State Cappella Symphony Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra (Kazan, Russia), Samara Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), the Jönköping Sinfonietta (Sweden), the Mikkeli Chamber Orchestra (Finland), and has led rehearsals with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.  He conducted the premiere performances of the Pet Halmen production of Die Zauberflöte at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (co-production with Lausanne Opera).

From 2003-2007 he served as Principal Guest Conductor/Acting Music Director of the Kharkov Symphony Orchestra – Ukraine’s only orchestra for emerging professional musicians.  He has held the position of Music Director of the Northern Lights Music Festival (Minnesota) since 2011, where he leads symphonic programs and has conducted new productions of Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci, La bohème, Carmen, The Merry Widow, Madama Butterfly and Eugene Onegin.

Gavriel Heine is the first American citizen to ever graduate from the Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied cello with Stefan Kalianov and Dmitri Miller.  He studied conducting with Ilya Musin and Leonid Korchmar at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and holds a master’s degree in conducting from Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with Imre Palló, Thomas Baldner and David Effron. He was featured in a televised masterclass with Valery Gergiev and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra at De Doelen in Rotterdam and was chosen by the League of American Orchestras to lead the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at the prestigious Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview.

Recent events include a tour to the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, California with the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra (Chopiniana/Spectre/Swan/Schéhérazade) and a return to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with the Mariinsky Ballet and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (La Bayadère) in October 2017.  December 2017 included debuts with the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana on tour with the Mariinsky Ballet (Swan Lake), as well as a debut at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet (3-act Paquita and The Nutcracker).  He also makes his conducting debut with Boston Ballet in Spring 2018, with Romeo and Juliet.