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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