Fabien Gabel has established an international career of the highest calibre, appearing with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Gabel has also worked alongside many of the world’s greatest soloists, including Seong-Jin Cho, Håkan Hardenberger, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gautier Capuçon and Yefim Bronfman. Having attracted international attention in 2004 as the winner of the Donatella Flick conducting competition, Gabel was assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 2004 until 2006. He was music director of Orchestre Symphonique de Québec from 2012 until 2021 and Orchestre Français de Jeunes from 2017 until 2021. He was named a ‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres‘ by the French Ministry of Culture in its 2020/21 New Year honours for his services to music. Born in Paris to a family of musicians, Gabel began his musical career playing the trumpet, having studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. He played with various Parisian orchestras under prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink before embarking on his conducting career.
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