Biography
Mark Wigglesworth
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, London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. He has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Amsterdam Mahler Festival and the BBC Proms; worked in Australia with the Sydney and Melbourne symphonies; and held positions as Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Opera Factory in London.
Since making his debut with the Dallas Symphony in 1992, Mark Wigglesworth's work in North America has included concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal and Cincinnati symphonies. 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 the Opera Factory in London. Since then he has conducted Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Peter Grimes, La Boheme and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival; Lady MacBeth of Mtzensk, Falstaff and Cosi fan tutte for the English National Opera in London; The Rake's Progress and Elektra with the Welsh National Opera and Peter Grimes at the Netherlands Opera. Recent opera engagements include Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, Tristan and Isolde at the Welsh National Opera, Katya Kabanova at the ENO and Peter Grimes at Opera Australia in Sydney.
In addition to his frequent appearances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony and New World Symphony, recent and upcoming performances include conducting the orchestras in Toronto, Houston and Indianapolis as well as the Sydney Symphony and the Stockholm, Monte Carlo, Netherlands Radio and Hong Kong Philharmonics, and appearances at the Aspen Music Festival and Grand Teton Festival. Mr. Wigglesworth led a highly acclaimed production of Parsifal at the English National Opera in London in the winter of 2011, returns to Opera Australia for a production of Don Giovanni in the fall of 2011 and leads the Bavarian State Opera in a production of Cosi fan tutte in November 2011 and June 2012.
Mark Wigglesworth recently completed recording all of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for BIS.
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