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, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. He regularly conducts the Minnesota Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony and has an ongoing relationship with the New World Symphony. In July 2007, he made his conducting debut at the Aspen Music Festival.
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. In November 2005 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro and returned to the Welsh National Opera in September 2006 to lead Tristan und Isolde.
During the 2009/10 season he guest conducts the Minnesota Orchestra, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and New World symphonies and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and leads productions of Peter Grimes with Opera Australia and Katya Kabanova with the English National Opera.
Mark Wigglesworth is currently in the process of completing a recording cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for BIS.