Gabriella Teychenné is a young British conductor who has been described as “radically passionate about the music” and creating a sound “of great and intimate feelings”. Having already led a varied and fulfilling career, she has conducted the music of over one hundred different composers in all settings of symphonic, opera, ballet, contemporary, choral and more at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican and Wigmore Hall.
In the UK she has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and Singers, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Opera Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and Ulster Orchestra.
In Europe she has conducted several performances with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Jönköpings Sinfonietta, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, as well as guest conducting the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Residentie Orkest. In the future she will also make debuts with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Sinfonica de Tenerife and Stadttheater Biel.
“... a highly concentrated evening with a rich sound.”
In the theatre she has conducted full productions with the Luzerner Theater, Nouvel Opera Fribourg and the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Royal Danish Ballet, early-music company Ārt House at Lockenhaus Festival, and three chamber opera premieres at Bold Tendencies. She works as an assistant conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as previously the Staatsoper Hamburg and Opera Holland Park.
A skilled director of contemporary music (see repertoire for complete list), she has become a frequent collaborator of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, ensemble contrechamps, and ensemble unitedberlin. She has toured extensively with these ensembles including concerts in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Moscow, and Bologna, and in addition has made recordings with BCMG and ensemble unitedberlin released on NMC Recordings and FARAO classics respectively, the latter of which was nominated for an Opus Klassik award.
Born in England in 1993, her early artistic talent revealed itself as a violinist. She eventually studied her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge (Trinity) where she read philosophy and ancient history, and remained an active performer as soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster. She then pursued her postgraduate musical studies in violin and conducting at the Royal College of Music and St Petersburg State Conservatory. Her career began as a long-term assistant conductor to the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, during which time she studied in masterclass with Paavo Jarvi, and also assisted Ben Palmer with the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, and later Edward Gardner in London.
“... visceral intensity takes us beyond theory... all those pieces were performed with exactly the right mix of wildness and virtuosity under conductor Gabriella Teychenné...”
She is a strong advocate of musical education, and has taught repertoire to the students at the Royal conservatoires in London and Copenhagen, the Southbank Sinfonia, and also given masterclasses to young people.
A natural musician with a powerful affinity for storytelling and the visual arts, her music-making has a keen sense of image, character and emotion, which make for intense and evocative performances. In her spare time she enjoys writing, walking, and discovering music from a wide range of genres from traditional folk to electronica, with a particular deep and wide knowledge of soundtracks from film and video games.
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She is gratefully supported by the Help Musicians UK Foundation.
© Gabriella Teychenne 2025.