Yoel Gamzou

Yoel Gamzou (born March 10, 1988 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli-American conductor. He became known for his Gustav Mahler interpretations and his addition to Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony.

Life

Gamzou grew up in a family of artists. He learned the cello as a child and had contact with Gustav Mahler's music, which inspired him to become a conductor at the age of twelve. At 14 he graduated from high school, at 15 he left his family in Israel to continue his education in New York , after which he was the last student of Carlo Maria Giulini in Italy . Attempts at regular studies in Paris, London and New York failed.

At the age of 19 he founded his own orchestra in 2006, the International Mahler Orchestra (IMO). On September 5, 2010, as part of the Jewish Culture Days in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin , the IMO published and performed his reconstructed version of Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony, which was much praised by critics and the public.

Gamzou has also conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony , the German Radio Philharmonic , the Hamburg Symphony and the Stuttgart Philharmonic . In 2017 he was awarded a classical echo as a young conductor.

Stations

• 2010 Chief Conductor of the New Philharmonic Hall in Munich (until 2012)
• 2012 1st Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director (GMD) at the Kassel State Orchestra (until 2015)
• 2017 Music Director at Theater Bremen

Awards

• 2007 special sponsorship award of the Gustav Mahler conducting competition of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
• 2012 Berenberg Culture Prize Hamburg
• 2013 Princess Margriet Award from the European Cultural Foundation
• 2017 ECHO Klassik in the young artist category (conductor)

literature

• Symphony No. 10 (1910), composer: Gustav Mahler, realization and further development of the unfinished sketches, concert version: Yoel H. Gamzou (2003–2010, 2nd version: autumn 2012), publisher: Schott Music , Mainz 2015, ISMN 979- 0-001-19776-2 (search in the DNB portal) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview in VAN magazine , accessed on January 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier from November 15, 2011 ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 28, 2013.
3. ↑ Own biography , accessed on January 28, 2013.
4. ↑ Die Welt, July 8, 2010
5. ^ Princess Margriet Award of the European Cultural Foundation , accessed on May 9, 2013.
6. ↑ Prize Winner ECHO 2017 (.pdf) , accessed on July 30, 2017.

Web links

• Official website of Yoel Gamzou
• Literature by and about Yoel Gamzou in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of the International Mahler Orchestra ´