Mihhail Gerts

Freelance conductor based in Berlin, working with orchestras around the world

With over 20 years of conducting experience Mihhail Gerts has performed with more than 50 professional orchestras such as Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Symphony, NHK Tokyo and many others. He is currently the artistic director of the TubIN Festival (Estonia). Alongside with guest-conducting orchestras worldwide he is also teaching conducting and score reading at Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler and the Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin as well as in his own online conducting school Gerts Academy.

Upcoming appearances

January 12, 2024

Belfast, Northern Ireland

On the stage with

Ulster Orchestra

Bridge, Brahms, Carwithen

February 2, 2024

Dublin, Ireland

On the stage with

NSO Dublin

Wagner, Stanford, Brahms

February 13, 2024

Dortmund, Germany

On the stage with

Dortmunder Philharmoniker

Grieg, Beethoven

February 14, 2024

Dortmund, Germany

On the stage with

Dortmunder Philharmoniker

Grieg, Beethoven

February 29, 2024

Oulu, Finland

On the stage with

Oulu Sinfonia

Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov

March 8, 2024

Tallinn, Estonia

On the stage with

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Debussy, Brahms, Grünberg

May 16, 2024

Lisbon, Portugal

On the stage with

Orchestra Gulbenkian

Wagner, R. Strauss, Brahms

June 11, 2024

Nantes, France

On the stage with

ONPL Nantes

Mozart, Faure

In the press

“Gerts super, Santa Cecilia idem”. Orchestra dell´Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was excellently conducted by this dynamic and communicative conductor.
Bresciaoggi.it
Mihhail Gerts delivered with Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France an interpretation of rare eloquence with ample, supple, graceful and precise gestures.
ResMusica.com
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.
Ben Lunn
Delfi.lv
…with astonishing precision, highly expressives gestures and warmth, his conducting was captivating from the first to the last note. Gerts rose completely above the technical challenges of conducting which he solved without easing up on the tension for one second.
RPonline.de
Gerts impressed the crowd to such an extent, that many were left hoping for a swift re-invitation.
Helsingin Sanomat
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.
brescia.corriere.it
The applause applied essentially to the conductor Mihhail Gerts, who conveyed the music of Donizetti sensitively, without neglecting the drama
Christopf Zimmermann
theater:pur
In terms of belcanto, Gerts led the Philharmonic in the pit with precision and delicacy
IOCO
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
Fritz Gerwinn
Deianira
His energy and clarity impressed, contact with the orchestra was also noticeably good
Klaus Günther
Solinger Tageblatt
Under the direction of Gerts, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra played sensitively, with agility and dedication
Jesko Schulze-Reimpell
Donaukurier
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
Stefan Schmöe
OMM
Conducting a highly motivated Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerts conveyed the multifacet [of the opera], which were missing from the staging. He allowed the orchestra to explode, but the sound stayed very transparent and subtle.
Monika Willer
Westfalenpost
The applause for the conductor should have, by rights, been even stronger
Christopf Zimmermann
theater:pur