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. As a guest conductor, Yoel Gamzou has worked at the Hamburg State Opera (Carmen, Tosca, Die tote Stadt, Der Freischütz), the Bavarian State Opera (Il Segreto di Susanna, Schön ist die Welt, Die tote Stadt), the Vienna State Opera (Tosca, Die Fledermaus, Die tote Stadt, Salome), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tosca), the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden (Turandot, Carmen, The Merry Widow), the Gothenburg Opera (Die schweigsame Frau), and the Aalto Theater Essen (Der Freischütz). He also conducted Marina Abramović's The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas at English National Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Greek National Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro di San Carlo, and the Bavarian State Opera.
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).
