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 and Dido & Aeneas in at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire.

Future plans include: St. Matthew Passion in Sweden; Cavalli’s Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne at the Copenhagen Music Theater and Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera with Concerto Copenaghen; The Fairy Queen at the Staatsoper in Berlin; Messiah with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opera de Oviedo; a series of concerts in Wroclaw with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, in Arundal with the Hanover Band (Bach's B minor Mass), in Oviedo with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, in Gent with the Collegium Vocale Gent and concerts in Australia with seventeen88, his newly founded period instrument orchestra. He 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.