BIOGRAPHY
Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro is a Polish-born, London-based musician with a diverse background as a classical violinist and conductor. She has performed as a soloist with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice and at the OCM Festival in Prussia Cove, UK. As a section leader, she has led the International Philharmonic Orchestra in New York, including performances at Carnegie Hall. Gabriela is a prize winner of the 2012 Young Paganini International Violin Competition. Gabriela graduated with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, earning an Artist Diploma in Violin Performance under the mentorship of cellist Louise Hopkins.
Cast in the theatre play ’’Duet For One’’ at the Orange Tree Theatre in London - “Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro gave a virtuosic performance on violin, beautifully emoting Oliver Vibrans’ score” (Spy In The Stalls). She regularly plays in Disney’s “Frozen” in the London West End, and she joined the Veles Ensemble for a recording of Egon Wellesz’s “sequence of wonderfully spare, atonal miniatures, in which not a note is wasted” (The Guardian). In addition to her solo and ensemble work, Gabriela is an active orchestral musician, performing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and she sings with the London Contemporary Voices. She has released an album featuring works by Maurice Ravel transcribed for violin and harp, in collaboration with Oliver Wass.
Gabriela has been a violin professor at the Zenon Brzewski International Music Courses in Łańcut. She has also expanded her focus to conducting, having been appointed Assistant Conductor of the King’s College London Symphony Orchestra for the 2023/24 season and serving as the sole conductor on their tour in France in the summer of 2024. She has conducted the Ensemble Multilatérale at the Académie Internationale de Mise en Scène de Théâtre in Nîmes, France, and was invited to participate in the Glover-Edwards Conducting Programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as the 10th International Conducting Masterclass with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, where she was selected by Maestro Jorma Panula.
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