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The french conductor Gabriel Drossart has worked with conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Günther Herbig, Heinz Holliger, Kwame Ryan, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Alexander Lazarev, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Christian Zacharias. He has participated to the tours of the Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine in Japan, Spain, Switzerland and many french cities and festivals such as "Les Folles Journées de Nantes".
Gabriel Drossart made the beginning of his career in the United States, earning the Graduate Performance Diploma in Conducting from the Peabody Conservatory under the guidance of Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar. During his studies, he was selected by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to conduct a performance of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat featuring BSO principals, and worked as assistant conductor with the Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, the Baltimore Opera, the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Pre-College Chamber Orchestra and the Hopkins Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
Born in France, he began his musical studies and his training as a violinist. By the age of 16, he was conducting as music director of his high school, and conducted choirs as well. In addition to attending Paris CNSM, Schola Cantorum and Versailles Conservatory, Gabriel Drossart completed his masters degree in Musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Gabriel Drossart has participated actively in masterclasses with Peter Eötvös, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Kenneth Kiesler, Daniel Lewis, Jun Märkl, Kurt Masur, Rossen Milanov, Michael Morgan, Zsolt Nagy, Jorma Panula, Alexander Polishchuk and Jonathan Stockhammer.
Gabriel Drossart has conducted in many different countries such orchestras as the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in Praga, Ensemble TM+, Paris, Duna Symphony Orchestra, Budapest, Vorpommern Philharmonisches Orchester, Germany, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Bucharest National University of Music Orchestra, Orquestra do Algarve, Portugal, Sofia Festival Orchestra in Siena, Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto, Italy, New Symphony Orchestra, Bulgaria and the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra in New York.