Mark Wigglesworth Conductor
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Born in Sussex, England, Mark Wigglesworth studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and won the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in 1989. Since then he has worked with many of the leading European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of La Scala Milan, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. He has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms, the Hollywood Bowl, the 1995 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam and in 2000 led the Sydney Symphony in the closing concert of the Olympic Arts Festival. Since making his North American debut in 1992 he has worked with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony. He regularly conducts the Minnesota Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony and has an ongoing relationship with the New World Symphony. Mark Wigglesworth led his first opera production in 1991, conducting Cosi fan Tutte for Opera Factory in London. Since then he has conducted Peter Grimes, La Boheme and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival; Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk, Falstaff and Cosi fan Tutte for English National Opera in London; The Rake's Progress and Elektra with Welsh National Opera; Peter Grimes at the Netherlands Opera and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2005, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro and in October 2006 returned to Welsh National Opera for Tristan und Isolde. Mark Wigglesworth is currently in the process of recording a complete Shostakovich Symphony cycle with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for BIS. |
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Intermusica Artists' Management (Worldwide excluding North America) Intermusica Artists' Management Ltd |
CMArtists New York (North America) CMArtists |
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