IWC SPEAKER SERIES:

GAVRIEL HEINE, resident conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia

The IWC is proud to present Mariinsky Theatre’s resident conductor Gavriel Heine who will tell us in his own words his story of moving from USA and how he came to live in this beautiful country. Join us for this very special exclusive ONLINE EVENT. Not one to miss!!

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Gavriel Heine, one of the most exciting and multifaceted conducting talents of his generation, is now in his thirteenth season as resident conductor of the world-renowned Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and also holds, since 2011, the title of General Music Director of Northern Lights Festival Opera in Minnesota, USA. He has previously served as Principal Guest Conductor/Acting Music Director of the Kharkov Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine’s only orchestra for emerging professional musicians) from 2003 to 2007, and as Assistant Conductor of Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia from 2006 to 2007.

Born and raised in the USA, Heine traveled to Russia at the age of 17 to study and became the first ever American citizen to graduate from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He studied operatic/symphonic conducting with the legendary professor Ilya Musin and Leonid Korchmar at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and completed a master's degree in conducting at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, IN, where he studied with Imre Palló, Thomas Baldner and David Effron. Following his 2007 debut at the Mariinsky Theater, by invitation of Valery Gergiev (with whom Maestro Heine studied with in a televised master class with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra) he was appointed resident conductor of the theater.
…….. continue reading Gavriel’s entire bio here

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