 Following his house debut conducting "Candide" for its first production at the English National Opera he returned to the company in 2011 to conduct the world premiere of Nico Muhly's opera "Two Boys".In 2005 he had conducted the premiere of the Brett Dean Viola Concerto in London
with the composer as soloist.During the opening week of the European City of Culture festival in Umeå in January 2014, Gamba conducted a complete Beethoven symphony cycle in the Konsertsalen where each of the nine symphonies was prefaced by the premiere of a new work by a contemporary composer.