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Mihhail Gerts Berlin
Conductor · Berlin
Mihhail Gerts
Twenty years on the podium and more than fifty orchestras worldwide — from Santa Cecilia and the BBC Symphony to the opera pit.
About
Precision, warmth, and a feeling for drama.
Estonian-born and based in Berlin, Mihhail Gerts has performed with more than fifty professional orchestras, among them the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Staatskapelle Dresden, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Opera runs deep in his work. As Resident Conductor of the Estonian National Opera (2007–2014) and First Kapellmeister and Deputy GMD at Theater Hagen (2015–2017) he led more than forty productions of opera and ballet, and he has since appeared at Teatro La Fenice and the Opéra de Saint-Étienne.
His repertoire reaches from Monteverdi and Bach through Brahms, Ravel and Prokofiev to Arvo Pärt and contemporary world premieres. As founder and Artistic Director of the TubIN Festival in Estonia he is a committed advocate for the music of Eduard Tubin.
- Years on the podium
- 20+
- Professional orchestras
- 50+
- Opera & ballet productions
- 40+
- Now
- Artistic Director, TubIN Festival (Estonia)
Faculty, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin & Barenboim-Said Akademie
Founder, Gerts Academy - Previously
- First Kapellmeister & Deputy GMD, Theater Hagen (2015–17)
Resident Conductor, Estonian National Opera (2007–14) - Training
- Estonian Academy of Music · HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin · PhD (2011)
Dirigentenforum, German Music Council (2013–17) - Distinctions
- Finalist, LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition (2014)
Finalist, Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition (2014)
Selected collaborations
On the podium with
Orchestras
- Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Staatskapelle Dresden
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
- NHK Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
- Munich Radio Orchestra
- Ulster Orchestra
- Gulbenkian Orchestra
- Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
- Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
- Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
- George Enescu Philharmonic
- Dortmunder Philharmoniker
- Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
- Oulu Sinfonia
Opera houses
- Teatro La Fenice, Venice
- Opéra de Saint-Étienne
- Teatro delle Muse, Ancona
- Estonian National Opera
- Theater Hagen
Repertoire
Monteverdi to Arvo Pärt, Brahms and Ravel to world premieres — with a special focus on the music of Eduard Tubin.
In the press
Press quotes
“…with astonishing precision, highly expressive gestures and warmth, his conducting was captivating from the first to the last note.”
“Gerts super, Santa Cecilia idem.” The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was excellently conducted by this dynamic and communicative conductor.
Mihhail Gerts delivered with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France an interpretation of rare eloquence with ample, supple, graceful and precise gestures.
Mihhail Gerts and the orchestra were truly magical. Gerts had a wonderful cool and calm demeanour; the power and passion came so naturally to him with what looked like very little physical effort.
Gerts impressed the crowd to such an extent that many were left hoping for a swift re-invitation.
Gerts held the reins of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia very well, proving to be an attentive connoisseur of the pieces performed, clean in his gesture and incisive as an interpreter.
Conducting a highly motivated Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra… He allowed the orchestra to explode, but the sound stayed very transparent and subtle.
Gerts knows how to conduct a big opera, has a flair for tempi and worked with the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra in a very precise way.
The applause applied essentially to the conductor Mihhail Gerts, who conveyed the music of Donizetti sensitively, without neglecting the drama.
In terms of bel canto, Gerts led the Philharmonic in the pit with precision and delicacy.
The orchestra under Mihhail Gerts brought the highly emotional music of Donizetti brilliantly out of the pit and by doing so also inspired the acting of the singers.
His energy and clarity impressed; contact with the orchestra was also noticeably good.
Under the direction of Gerts, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra played sensitively, with agility and dedication.
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