Israeli-American conductor Yoel Gamzou was Carlo Maria Giulini’s final student. His 2024/2025 engagements include Der Freischütz (Hamburg), Salome (Vienna), and Elmar Lampson’s Wellen (Bremen). He also debuts with the Swedish RSO, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic, and Sinfonieorchester Bern, and will appear during the Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Academy.
In 2023 he founded the oneMusic Orchestra. Previously, he served as Generalmusikdirektor of Theater Bremen, and First Kapellmeister and deputy-General Music Director of the Staatstheater Kassel. In recent seasons, he has been seen at the Hamburg State Opera (Carmen, Tosca, Die tote Stadt); Bavarian Staatsoper (Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Segreto di Susanna, Lehár’s Schön ist die Welt); Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tosca); Viennese Staatsoper (Tosca, Die Fledermaus, Die tote Stadt); Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Turandot, Carmen, The Merry Widow); Gothenburg Opera (Die schweigsame Frau); and at the Aalto Theater Essen (Der Freischütz).
He also served as the conductor for Marina Abramovic’s The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas in London, Paris, Athens, Berlin, San Carlo and München. In concert, Gamzou has conducted the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Bern, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Bremen Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Vienna Symphony, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Deutsches Radio-Sinfonieorchester, Hamburg Symphony, Stuttgarter Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, and the Israel Philharmonic.
He is also active as a composer. In 2010 he completed Mahler’s Symphony No. 10. His most recent work was premiered with the Junge Philharmonie Brandenburg under his own baton.
Yoel Gamzou is the recipient of an ECHO Klassik Award (2017); Princess Margriet Award (2013); and the Berenberg Culture Prize (2012).
