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 Sutherland 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 June 2025, he will conduct Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty score during the Royal Birmingham Ballet's tour of Japan, followed by conducting engagements with the Finnish National Ballet and the Vienna State Ballet in the 2025/26 season. At the Bavarian State Ballet, he has been conducting The Snowstorm and Cinderella.

(Information as of May 2025)