Dutch / Australian Benjamin Bayl was born in Sydney and studied at King’s
College Cambridge and Royal Academy of Music. He is Associate Director of
London’s Hanover Band. He was Assistant Conductor to Iván Fischer at the
Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He also
assisted Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding
& Richard Hickox with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber
Orchestra & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
In the operatic world he has conducted at Staatsoper Stuttgart (Juditha
Triumphans, Platée, La Fest); Staatsoper Berlin (Fairy
Queen); Royal Danish Opera and Norwegian National Opera (Don
Giovanni); Theater an der Wien (Candide, Il Giasone,
Richard III); Bayreuth Baroque (Flavio, Griselda);
Opera Vlaanderen (Idomeneo, Iphigénie en Tauride),
Victorian Opera (Idomeneo); Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Carmen);
Dutch National Opera (Il matrimonio segreto); Opera Australia (Orlando);
Polish National Opera (La Clemenza di Tito); Savonlinna Festival (Giulio
Cesare); San Diego (La Calisto, Partenope, Ariodante);
Cartagena Festival (Così fan tutte); Teatro Comunale di Sassari (Carmen);
Opera Queensland (Dido and Aeneas); Wiener Staatsoper (Fatima);
NorrlandsOperan (Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni);
Opera de Oviedo (Le nozze di Figaro and Agrippina);
Budapest State Opera (Così fan tutte and Fairy Queen);
Opera Zuid (Die Zauberflöte) and Theater Aachen (Lo speziale).
He is a frequent visitor to Warsaw Chamber Opera, having conducted Castor
et Pollux, Armide, Pygmalion and several Mozart
works.
Symphonic engagements include Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic
Orchestras; Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Canberra Symphony
Orchestras; Auckland Philharmonic; Dunedin Symphony; Royal Philharmonic;
Warsaw Philharmonic; Sinfonia Varsovia, Orquesta Filamónica de Medellín;
Philharmonie Zuidnederland; Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Orchestra
Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali and Orchestra
Sinfonia G.Rossini di Pesaro, as well as the German cities of Aachen,
Bochum and Bremen and the Scandinavian cities of Stavanger, Gävle, Umeå,
Reykjavík, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and Copenhagen.
In the realm of historical performance, he directs Collegium Vocal Gent,
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, B’Rock, Vocalconsort Berlin, Concerto
Copenhagen, Concerto Köln, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Hanover Band,
Orkiestra Historyczna, Dunedin Consort and Australian Haydn Ensemble.
Future projects include concerts with Concerto Köln in Amsterdam
Concertgebouw and Kölner Philharmonie, Medea at Theater an der Wien
and his debuts with Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Tasmanian
Symphony Orchestra and Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.
April 2025