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Born in the United States, Gavriel Heine is currently а resident conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre and Music Director of Northern Lights Festival Opera in Minnesota, USA.
The first American in history to graduate from the Moscow Conservatory, Mr. Heine was one of Ilya Musin's last pupils at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and follows a long line of conductors who were deeply influenced by the legendary professor. In 2007, Valery Gergiev invited Heine to make his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre, resulting in his appointment to the conducting roster. He has since led nearly 600 performances of opera, ballet and symphonic works with the company, where his repertoire includes the operas Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Macbeth, La Bohème, Tosca, Il Trittico, Pelléas et Mélisande, Jenůfa, L’heure Espagnole/Gianni Schicchi, Bluebeard’s Castle, Turn of the Screw, Pagliacci and La forza del destino, and special versions of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, A Love for Three Oranges and Wagner's Ring cycle. He conducts the ballets The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Sylvia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Firebird, Rite of Spring, Apollo, Le Spectre de la rose, The Swan, “Paquita” Grand Pas, Jewels, Bambi/In the Jungle, Chopiniana, Carnaval, Schéhérazade, Cinderella, Raymonda, Symphony in C, Paquita (2017 three act version), La Bayadère and Inside the Lines. Premieres conducted at the Mariinsky include Robert Carsen's production of My Fair Lady (co-production with the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Delibes/Ashton’s Sylvia, a revival of Balanchine’s Serenade and the Russian premiere of Twyla Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove.
Mr. Heine has conducted on Mariinsky Ballet tours to Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom, garnering unanimous praise from the critics. He led performances of Swan Lake at LAC in Lugano and the Teatro Regio Torino, The Nutcracker and Paquita at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Raymonda and Chopiniana/ Schéhérazade at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, Cinderella at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, also touring with the company to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Swan Lake), The Kennedy Center (Rite of Spring/Paquita, Raymonda, La Bayadère), and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Apollo/ A Midsummer Night's Dream). He has conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra in concert at the Gergiev Festival in Mikkeli, Finland and conducted the Mariinsky Opera on tour to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre (Bartok's Bluebeard’s Castle).
Heine has made guest appearances with Opera de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (Otello), Boston Ballet (Romeo and Juliet) and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre of St Petersburg (Die Zauberflöte), as well as with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, La Verdi Orchestra of Milan, Orchestras of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Regio Torino, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia, the St Petersburg State Cappella Orchestra, the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Samara Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), the Jönköping Sinfonietta (Sweden), Mikkeli Chamber Orchestra (Finland), and has led rehearsals as Assistant Conductor with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
He conducted the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in a televised master class with Valery Gergiev in 2007, and was a featured conductor at the 2013 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (Florida, USA).
Gavriel Heine is Music Director of the annual Northern Lights Music Festival in Minnesota, USA, where he has conducted new productions of Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci, La bohème, Carmen, The Merry Widow, Madama Butterfly, Eugene Onegin and Il barbiere di Siviglia.