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; The Fairy Queen at the Staatsoper in Berlin (new production); St. Matthew Passion in Sweden; Carmen and a symphony concert in Sassari, which marked his Italian debut, followed by his debut with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento; L’Orfeo in Munich; Così fan tutte in Aarhus; Semele in Koln; Messiah with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra; Le Nozze di Figaro in Baden Baden and in Oviedo; Johanna Dederer’s Fatima, oder von den mutigen Kindern at the Wiener Staatsoper; a series of concerts in Wroclaw with the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra in Arundal with the Hanover Band (Bach’s B minor Mass), in Gent with the Collegium Vocale Gent and concerts in Australia with seventeen88, his newly founded period instrument orchestra.

Future plans include: Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam; Idomeneo at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp; The Fairy Queen in Budapest; Bach’s Brandeburgische Konzerte with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in Hong Kong; a series of concerts with the Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano and Milan.