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The Belgian pianist and conductor, Gabriel Hollander, studied piano and mathematic simultaneously. As he finished his Master in Mathematics in 2012, he studied piano during one year at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater at Leipzig, Germany. In June 2015, he finished his Master of Music degree in piano, being a student of Boyan Vodenitcharov. He is classically trained in conducting, vocal coaching and piano. His musical mentors include Daniel Blumenthal, Boyan Vodenitcharov (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), Markus Tomas (Leipziger Hochschule Für Musik und Theater), Rodolfo Saglimbeni (Sherborne Summer School) and Kenneth Kiesler (Michigan University). He is a laureate of several competitions, for example Jong-Tenuto, Cantabile, Rotary Brueghel and Dexia Classics.
As piano accompanist for singers, Gabriel Hollander has worked with several international singers as Sarah Defrise, Géraldine Naus, Marco Zelaya, Astrid Defauw, Emmanuel Junk. In 2016, he was also one of the official accompanists at the singing competition Triomphe de l’Art.
Next to his piano solo, chamber music and accompaniment activities, Gabriel Hollander has also studied orchestral conducting, under the guidance of Dominique Rammaert, Rodolfo Salgimbeni, Denise Ham Toby Purser, and Kenneth Kiesler. His conducting debut was in May 2014 in a W.A. Mozart piano concerto, KV 459, with Severin von Eckardstein as soloist. Since, he has conducted at the piano the musical The Wild Party (Andrew Lippa version) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and has worked with numerous orchestras and choirs, among others the Berlin Sinfonietta (Germany), Pazardzhik Symphonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Michigan University Students Orchestra (USA), Orion Orchestra in Aberystwyth (Wales), Choir and Orchestra of the Chapelle des Minimes, Carloo Cantores choir (Belgium) and A Chantar choir (Belgium). Since September 2017, he is the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Uccle. Since September 2018, he is also the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the German Embassy Choir of Brussels and the Brussels Madrigals Singers. Futhermore, is also the Guest Conductor of the Bruocsella Symphony Orchestra in 2019.
Gabriel Hollander is based in Brussels, Belgium. Highlights of the 2018-2019 season were conducting W.A. Mozart’s Requiem (1000 audience members) with the Uccle Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Carloo Cantores and the A Chantar choirs, and assisting music director David Miller the Midsummer Mozartiade’s production of W.A. Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail. In the current season 2019-2020, he successfully conducted the Bruocsella Symphony Orchestra in four musical shows in front of 2000 audience members. In March 2020, he will assist Patrick Davin in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, at the Opera Metz. Also, in June 2020, Gabriel will have his opera debut with W.A. Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito with the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie (Midsummer Mozartiade production). |
