Gabriella Teychenné (b. 1993) is a young British conductor described as being “radically passionate about the music” and creating a sound “of great and intimate feelings”. Working internationally, she has already conducted the music of over one hundred different composers in all settings of symphonic, opera, ballet, contemporary, choral and more.
The 2024-2025 season includes debuts with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Jönköpings Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia and Scottish Opera Orchestra, as well as returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Recent appearances include with the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra Winds, BBC Singers, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, and she maintains particularly close relationships with orchestras in Finland and the Nordic region in general.
She has performed with soloists including Marc-André Hamelin, Dietrich Henschel, Karina Gauvin, Stephen Gadd, Toby Spence, Carolina Eyck, Nils Mönkemeyer, Laura van der Heijden, and Thibaut Garcia.
“...exactly the right mix of wildness and virtuosity...”
In the pit she has conducted full productions of Mozart’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’ at the Luzerner Theater, Eötvös’s ‘Der Goldene Drache’ as a collaboration between Nouvel Opera Fribourg and the Grand Theatre de Geneve, ‘Napoli’ with the Royal Danish Ballet, Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan Tutte’ with early-music company Ārt House at Lockenhaus Festival, Austria, and the world premiere of Smail’s ‘Blue Electric’ in the West-End, London. In 2018 she was on the music staff at the Staatsoper Hamburg, and currently works as an assistant conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper to Vladimir Jurowski.
Since her days at conservatoire when she championed the work of student composers, she has become a well-established conductor of contemporary music, and has become a frequent collaborator of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, ensemble contrechamps, and ensemble unitedberlin, and has also worked with ensemble 10:10. 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, she began her musical training as a violinist. A recipient of several music and academic scholarships, she studied her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge (Trinity) where she read political philosophy and ancient history. She pursued her postgraduate musical studies with a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music, followed by an Artist Diploma at the St Petersburg State Conservatory, and she subsequently studied with and assisted Vladimir Jurowski, Paavo Jarvi and Edward Gardner.
She is a strong advocate of musical education in the UK, and has returned to the RCM to conduct and work with students, worked twice with Southbank Sinfonia, teaches repertoire sessions for students at the Royal Academy of Music and gives masterclasses to young people in schools. She is gratefully supported by the Help Musicians UK Foundation. In addition to conducting, Gabriella’s musical and personal interests span over a wide range of genres and disciplines.
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