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 symphony concert in Sassari,
which marked his Italian debut.
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. In the future seasons, Benjamin Bayl will
be engaged in an important production at the Wiener Staatsoper.
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