Benjamin Bayl - conductor
Benjamin Bayl’s skill and flair in conducting period instrument ensembles as
well as modern orchestras has led to collaborations with and support from many
notable figures, not least Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Iván Fischer, Ivor Bolton,
Harry Bicket, Paul McCreesh and Richard Hickox, to name a few. Following the
success of his recent performances with Symfoniorkester Norrlandsoperan (Bach’s
Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah), Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de
Asturias (Handel’s Agrippina and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung), Aalborg Symfoniorkester
and The Hanover Band, all have invited him to return for appearances in the next
seasons. Other past season highlights include his debut with Opéra National de
Lorraine in concert, and invitations to the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra,
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, Gävle Symfoniorkester
and RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Bayl recently conducted La Clemenza di Tito with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in
Taipei; Dido & Aeneas in at
the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire; Cavalli’s Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne at
the Copenhagen Music Theater and Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera
with Concerto Copenaghen; St. Matthew Passion in Sweden; a concert in
Sassari.
Future plans include: The Fairy Queen at the
Staatsoper in Berlin; Messiah with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra; Le
Nozze di Figaro at the Opera de Oviedo; Carmen in Sassari; Così fan Tutte in
Aarhus; a series of concerts in Wroclaw with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, in
Arundal with the Hanover Band (Bach's B
minor Mass), in Moscow with the Akademie für Alte Musik, in Gent with the
Collegium Vocale Gent and concerts in Australia with seventeen88, his newly
founded period instrument orchestra. Mr. Bayl will come back to Italy in 2014
for a concert tour with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, with an
all-Baroque program. In the future seasons, Benjamin Bayl will be engaged in an
important production at the Wiener Staatsoper.
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