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.
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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

Photo gallery

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Photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas

Videos

Ravel La valse excerpt

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 excerpts

Tubin Concertino for piano and orchestra, Mihkel Poll (piano)

Get in touch

General Management
Maestro Arts
Emma Sweetland
+44 7946 377 654
emma@maestroarts.com
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