Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

Gavin Sutherland (born 1972) is a conductor, composer/arranger and pianist. He is the current Music Director of the English National Ballet.

Born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England, he studied conducting, piano and orchestration at University of Huddersfield and graduated with first-class honours, as well as gaining the Kruczynski Prize for Piano and the Davidson Prize for Distinction Brought to the Institution. He also studied as a trombonist.

Sutherland was appointed as pianist and staff conductor for Northern Ballet Theatre from 1992 – 98. On the basis of his first CD, British Light Music Discoveries on ASV, Sutherland began working with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia on the concert platform and as the orchestra of Birmingham Royal Ballet (involving both national and international tours). He has featured as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and has also guest conducted frequently for English National Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, New Adventures, Norwegian National Ballet and South African Ballet Theatre.

In June 2008 he was appointed Music Director of English National Ballet.

He has made over seventy-five recordings all over the world, predominantly with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, for labels such as ASV Sanctuary, Sony, Warner Classics, Naxos Records Marco Polo imprint, Dutton-Vocalion, Campion and Olympian. He has played a part in the current revival of British Light Music chiefly through several popular series of discs, although he has recorded works as wide-ranging as Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and the chart-topping Carry On album and the single release of the Radio 4 UK Theme. Recently Gavin compiled and conducted two concerts for the BBC Radio 3 Light Fantastic festival of light music, both with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and one of which was simulcast on BBC Radio 2 and 3. He also contributed to a project for the festival inviting players to form an online orchestra to play Barwick Green, the signature tune to BBC Radio 4's The Archers.

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