Conductor Anthony Gabriele
Anthony Gabriele has established an international reputation for conducting with tremendous passion born of a profound knowledge and understanding of the repertoire. He has worked with orchestras and companies as diverse as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Britten Sinfonia, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, City Light Symphony Orchestra (Lucerne), Bulgarian State Opera, Abai State Kazakh National Opera & Ballet Theatre, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), Oviedo Filarmonía, Barcelona Symphony & Catalonia National Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse.
Anthony’s career has taken him around the world working with artists such as percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie; tenors Fabio Armiliato and Noah Stewart; accordionist Ksenija Sidorova; Irish singer/songwriter Ronan Keating; and violinist Daniel Hope.
Anthony’s life-long fascination with story-telling in music has always informed his choices. As a Musical Director on London’s West End, and internationally, his credits include The Lion King, CATS, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Funny Girl, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music and Evita.
As a past prize winner in the international opera conducting competition Blue Danube Musik Impresario (Vienna), Anthony’s opera credits include Don Carlo, La traviata, La bohème, Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly.
However, it is as one of the finest conductors of ‘Film with Orchestra’ concerts, that Anthony has achieved greatest acclaim with performances of 25 titles and the World Premieres of Superman, Spectre, Moby Dick, and Les Choristes. Other titles include Psycho, Vertigo, An American in Paris, Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, E.T.: the Extra-terrestrial, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Disney’s Fantasia, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Apollo 13, Back to the Future, West Side Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Casino Royale, Skyfall, GameOn!, the silent film Blancanieves and Charlie Chaplin’s silent films The Adventurer, The Circus and City Lights.
Highlights of Anthony’s 2023/2024 season include the World Premiere of Fiddler on the Roof – Film with Orchestra; his debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra; a return to The Retro Festival in Lucerne to perform with double Grammy Award winner, Michael Bolton; and performing at the Llais Festival in Cardiff with renowned vocalists Charlotte Church, Laura Mvula, ESKA and Olivia Chaney, showcasing Vincent Mendoza’s fully-orchestrated masterpieces of iconic singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell.
See Anthony Gabriele conduct Life on Our Planet in Concert with the RSNO on 10 October 2024.