Gavin Sutherland

Conductor

Gavin is a conductor, pianist, composer and arranger. He hails from County Durham (UK) and studied at the University of Huddersfield (where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2019) and joined Northern Ballet in 1992, where he worked until 1998. From 2008 to 2022, he was Music Director at the English National Ballet (ENB) and remains associated with the London company as Principal Guest Conductor. As well as conducting in the UK and on tour, Sutherland has also created orchestral arrangements for the ENB's productions of Raymonda (Tamara Rojo), Giselle (Akram Khan), Le Corsaire (Anna-Marie Holmes), Men Y Men (Wayne Eagling) and No Man's Land (Liam Scarlett). With the ENB Phlharmonic, he recorded Alexander Glazunov's music for Raymonda, adapted and arranged together with Lars Payne, for the Opus Arte label in 2022. Gavin has conducted performances by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the Royal Ballet in Stockholm, the Norwegian National Ballet and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, among others. In the 2026-27 season, he will be conducting for English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Vienna State ballet prodctions. For Bavarian State Ballet, he has been the conductor for the new productionsThe Blizzard and Cinderella. In season 2026-27, he will be conducting performances of Illusions – like Swan Lake and Cinderella.

(Information as of September 2026)