Alban Gerhardt has gained recognition as one of the world’s most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his technical mastery, profound musicality, and insatiable artistic curiosity. In addition to all core concertos, Gerhardt’s wide repertoire includes numerous contemporary cello works, for instance the concerti by Unsuk Chin or Brett Dean, which Gerhardt had commissioned.

Notable orchestral collaborators include The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España as well as all the British and German radio orchestras, under conductors such as Daniel Harding, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Karina Canellakis, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski and Andris Nelsons.

Highlights of the upcoming 2025/26 season include concerto performances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, NOSPR Katowice, National Symphony Orchestra in Taipei, and the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors such as Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Delyana Lazarova, Ryan Wigglesworth, Ryan Bancroft, to name a few.

Recent highlights include collaborations with Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Munich Philharmonic, the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Warsaw Philharmonic amongst others.

A keen chamber musician, Gerhardt regularly performs with pianists Steven Osborne and Alexei Volodin, and the Alliage Saxophone Quintet. The upcoming season brings Gerhardt to Muziekgebouw Amsterdam - performing alongside musicians like Gidon Kremer or Alina Ibragimova - to Montreal with Steven Osborne, and to Wigmore Hall for a solo recital of all Bach suites.

Having recorded extensively for Hyperion, Gerhardt’s album of the complete Bach suites was one of The Sunday Times’s top 100 recordings of 2019. His album of Shostakovich cello concertos with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Jukka-Pekka Saraste was awarded an ICMA in 2021. Gerhardt has won several awards, and his recording of Unsuk Chin’s cello concerto, released by Deutsche Grammophon, won a BBC Music Magazine Award and was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2015.

As Artist in Residence, Alban Gerhardt has performed at Wigmore Hall, with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony. He was also Artist in Focus at the Aldeburgh Festival and the SchumannFest, and since 2025 has been Artistic Director of the Young Euro Classics Festival in Berlin, together with composer Mathias Hinke.

Gerhardt is passionate about outreach and shares his experience and his music with audiences in schools, hospitals and young offender institutions.

Alban Gerhardt plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dating from 1710.