Gabriella Teychenné (/’teɪʃɛnɛ/) is engaged internationally in an impressive range of musical engagements. Eliciting powerful and expressive performances, she has already 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, Wigmore Hall, and on the BBC.
Symphonic
In current and recent seasons she has worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia 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, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, and Joensuu City Orchestra.
Theatre
The current season sees her work on two productions - she is musical director of ‘Laissez Durer La Nuit’ at the Stadttheater Biel and cover conductor for the world premiere of ‘Of One Blood’ at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She has conducted full productions of Mozart’s ‘Nozze di Figaro’ at the Luzerner Theater, Eotvos’s ‘Der Goldene Drache’ with Nouvel Opera Fribourg at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, ’Napoli’ with the Royal Danish Ballet, and Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan Tutte’ with Austrian early-music company Ārt House. She has also been the musical director of three new chamber operas at Bold Tendencies in London.
Contemporary
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.
“... a highly concentrated evening with a rich sound.”
Background
Born in England in 1993, she studied her undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge (Trinity) reading political philosophy and archaeology, where she also remained active as a highly-trained violinist. She pursued her postgraduate musical studies in violin and conducting at the Royal College of Music and then the St Petersburg State Conservatory. Following this, she became a long-term assistant conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2017-2021) to Vladimir Jurowski and then later Edward Gardner.
A multi-disciplinarian 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 exploring music from a wide range of genres from traditional folk to techno, with a particularly deep and wide knowledge of modern soundtracks. She is a strong advocate of musical education, and has taught the students of the Royal conservatoires in London and Copenhagen, Southbank Sinfonia, and has also given masterclasses across several schools.
“... visceral intensity takes us beyond theory... all those pieces were performed with exactly the right mix of wildness and virtuosity under conductor Gabriella Teychenné...”
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