Gary Bertini (1928 - 18 March 2005) was an Israeli conductor and musician.

Born in Bessarabia, Moldova, he immigrated to Israel in 1947. He studied music in Italy, Tel Aviv and the Paris Conservatoire. He established the Rinat choir in the 1955. He performed for the Israel Chamber Orchestra , which he founded in 1965 and was its conductor until 1975. He was conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1986, music advisor to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1983 and Principal Conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1983 until 1991.

In 1987 he was awarded the Israel Prize. In 1995 he won two prizes: Conductor of the Year, and Fermio Abiatti Prize of the Italian Music Critics Union.

Recently, he was appointed as musical director of the Metropolitan Symphonic Orchestra of Tokyo. He was the first non-Japanese to hold such a position in a Japanese orchestra.

He died on March 18, 2005.

References

• Short biography in Hebrew