Gabriella Teychenné (/’teɪʃɛnɛ/) is a young English conductor working in an impressive range of musical engagements. Acclaimed for eliciting powerful performances with expressive and elegant physicality, she has already led 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, and is regularly featured on national radio stations such as the BBC.
Highlights from recent seasons include appearances and returns with all of the London BBC ensembles, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Opera Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ulster Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Jönköpings Sinfonietta, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg and Orchestre National de Montpellier. Future engagements include main season debuts with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, and Joensu City Orchestra.
“... a highly concentrated evening with a rich sound.”
In the 25/26 season she works on two operas, ‘Laissez Durer La Nuit’ at the Stadttheater Biel and the premiere of ‘Of One Blood’ at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She has conducted full productions with the Luzerner Theater, Nouvel Opera Fribourg at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Royal Danish Ballet, early-music company Ārt House at Lockenhaus Festival. She works as an assistant conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as previously the Staatsoper Hamburg and Glyndebourne. She has a strong affinity for Mozart, Puccini, 20th century and contemporary opera.
A skilled director of contemporary music, she is a frequent collaborator of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, ensemble contrechamps, and ensemble unitedberlin. She has toured extensively with these ensembles across Europe, and in addition has made recordings with BCMG and ensemble unitedberlin released on NMC Recordings and FARAO classics respectively.
Born in England in 1993 she was trained early as a violinist. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge (Trinity) where she read philosophy and archaeology, and remained an active performer. 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 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2017-2021) to Vladimir Jurowski and then later Edward Gardner.
“... visceral intensity takes us beyond theory... all those pieces were performed with exactly the right mix of wildness and virtuosity under conductor Gabriella Teychenné...”
A multi-disciplinarian 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, hiking, chess, and enjoying music from a wide range of genres from traditional folk to electronica, with a particularly deep and wide knowledge of modern soundtracks.
During the covid-19 period she created the Sinfonia Humanitas project, an ensemble which performed via live-stream based around the concept of combining baroque music played on historical instruments with newly commissioned works - a venture which “has rightly been attracting plaudits”. She has also been musical director of two brand new shows at Bold Tendencies in London set around topical current political issues. She is a strong advocate of musical education, and has taught the students of the Royal conservatoires in London and Copenhagen, the Southbank Sinfonia, and has also given masterclasses in schools.
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© Gabriella Teychenne 2025.