Benjamin Bayl Conductor

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Benjamin Bayl is Associate Director of The finta semplice, Pygmalion & Lully ), Opera Hanover Band, and Co-Founder & Guest Di- Neo San Diego (Partenope) and Nordic Opera rector of the Australian Romantic & Classical (L’incoronazione di Poppea & Cavalli’s Gli amore . d’Apollo e di Dafne), working with eminent sta- Holding both Dutch and Australian nationali- ge directors such as Claus Guth, Ivo van Hove, ty, he was the first Australian Organ Scholar of David Bösch and Guy Joosten. King’s College Cambridge, and then studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Mu- Benjamin has made highly successful debuts sic with Colin Metters and George Hurst. An in recent seasons with such as alumnus of the National Opera Studio, he be- (Musikfest Berlin came Assistant Conductor to the Budapest in the Berlin Philharmonie, and Ruhrtriennia- Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in 2006, le Festival), Hong Kong Philharmonic Orches- and was also mentored by and assisted Sir tra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal John Eliot Gardiner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Richard Hickox, Harry Christophers and Ivor del Principado de Asturias, Taipei Symphony Bolton. From 2007-2010 he served as Assistant Orchestra, Bochumer Symphoniker, Bremer Artistic Director to the Gabrieli Consort & Paul Philharmoniker, Britten Sinfonia, Netherlands McCreesh, and also worked with Fischer and Youth Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Orchestra Sinfonica G.Rossini, Orchestra i Po- meriggi Musicali and Orchestra Filharmonica He recently made his conducting debut in the di Torino, as well as numerous Scandinavian Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Collegium symphony orchestras (including Stavanger, Vocale Gent and Akademie für Alte Musik Gävle, Umeå, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense & CPH Berlin, and was immediately re-invited to con- Phil) conducting a broad range of repertoire duct them on a European tour with the music from the great Viennese classics, historically of CPE Bach. Working extensively in the ear- informed Baroque and Romantic works, and ly music field (both as conductor or directing new commissions. He is often invited to pre- from the keyboard) recent and regular colla- sent the great oratorios of Bach, Handel, Mo- borations include The Hanover Band, Concer- zart and Haydn, and works often with the Slo- to Copenhagen, Akamus, Wroclaw Baroque vak Youth Orchestra. Orchestra, and Warsaw Chamber Opera. Current and future season highlights inclu- In the realm of opera, he has conducted at de concerts with Malaysian Philharmonic & Wiener Staatsoper (Fatima oder von den mutigen Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchest- Kindern), Dutch National Opera / Nederlands ra Haydn di Bolzano, Bochumer Symphoniker, Reisopera (Il matrimonio segreto), Staatsoper Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Orchestra of ANAM Berlin (Fairy Queen / AscheMond), Royal Danish with Voces8, a Beethoven cycle with The Ha- Opera (), Danish National Opera nover Band, Così fan tutte in the Cartagena (Così fan tutte), Opera Vlaanderen (Idomeneo), Festival and Budapest State Opera, Candi- Den Norske Opera (Don Giovanni), Opera Aus- de with Theatre an der Wien / Kammeroper tralia (Orlando), Opera de Oviedo (Agrippina & Wien, Die Zauberflöte with Opera Zuid, and the Le nozze di Figaro), Budapest State Opera (Fairy Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin. Queen), Polish National Opera (La clemenza di Tito), Deutsche Oper am Rhein & Teatro Co- munale di Sassari (Carmen), NorrlandsOperan (Le nozze di Figaro), Warsaw Chamber Opera (La Biography PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS

Video links: Beethoven: Coriolan Overture: vimeo.com/220930134 Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings - Sonnet: vimeo.com/215754444 Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro: vimeo.com/215067246

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