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 at the age of 25. Since then he has worked with many of the leading European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. Mr. Wigglesworth has also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms and led the Sydney Symphony in the closing concert of the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
In 2008, Mr. Wigglesworth becomes Music Director of the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels where each season he will lead several opera productions and conduct orchestral concerts. His previous positions include Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Music Director of the Premiere Ensemble and Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Since making his North American debut with the Dallas Symphony in 1992, Mark Wigglesworth has worked with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony among others. He regularly conducts the Minnesota Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony and has an ongoing relationship with the New World Symphony. In July 2007, he makes his conducting debut at the Aspen Music Festival.
Mr. 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 he returned to the Welsh National Opera in September 2006 to lead Tristan und Isolde.
Currently in the process of completing a recording cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for BIS, Mr. Wigglesworth has also recorded Schoenberg's arrangement of Mahler's "Das Lied von de Erde" for BMG.