Hailed by critics for his “astonishing precision, highly expressive gestures and warmth“ as “a name to remember”, the Estonian conductor Mihhail Gerts has made a name for himself following recent successful debuts with the Orchestre Nazionale delĺ Accademia di Santa Cecilia, BBC Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with the acclaimed baritone Matthias Goerne as soloist. He is also the artistic director of the TubIN Festival, initiated to promote the outstanding symphonic music of the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin.
Gerts has established a regular collaboration with orchestras such as RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, National Philharmonic of Russia and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Forthcoming dates include debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden, St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, as well as returning to Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Bremer Philharmoniker, Opera Saint-Etienne etc.
Gerts studied conducting at the Estonian Academy of Music and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin. In 2011 he received his PhD. From 2013 to 2017 he was a Stipendiate of the Dirigentenforum Programme of the German Music Council, and in 2014 was a finalist in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Donatella Flick Competition and Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition.
The RIAM Philharmonia was founded in 2016. It brings together some of Ireland’s finest musicians, joined by a growing body of international students making the Royal Irish Academy of Music their musical home.
Its wide-ranging repertoire of music has been heard in some of Dublin’s finest historic spaces, including the Pillar Room of the Rotunda and St Bartholomew’s Church, Clyde Road. Distinguished conductors with which the musicians have worked with in its inaugural seasons include Kenneth Montgomery, Gerhard Markson, Andrew Mogrelia, Jonas Alber, Atso Almila and Michel Galante.
