Fabien Gabel

In demand as a guest conductor in many countries, conductor Fabien Gabel spent ten years as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. He has collaborated with top-notch soloists, including Emanuel Ax and Gidon Kremer. Gabel was born on September 10, 1975, in Paris. His father was a trumpeter, his mother was a harpist, and he took up the trumpet at age six. Soon, he was taking trumpet lessons at the Conservatoire de Paris (the CNSM), winning a first prize there for trumpet in 1996, and he went on for further work at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in Germany. G...