conductor
Ryan Wigglesworth
Ryan Wigglesworth, who took up the position of chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in September 2022, has established himself as one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. He was principal guest conductor of the Hallé Orchestra from 2015 to 2018 and composer in residence at English National Opera.
In close partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, he recently founded the Knussen Chamber Orchestra which made both its Aldeburgh Festival and BBC Proms debuts in 2019.
Recent guest appearances include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo, Seattle, Melbourne and Lahti Symphony Orchestras, and the London Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the BBC Proms in 2023 for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the UK premiere of Kurtág’s opera Endgame.
Wigglesworth is also active as a concert pianist, having performed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven in Europe and East-Asia and regularly appearing in recital partnering with Mark Padmore, Lawrence Power and Sophie Bevan.
His first opera, The Winter’s Tale, premiered at English National Opera in 2017 in a production conducted by the composer. Other works include commissions from the Royal Concertgebouw and Cleveland orchestras, BBC Symphony (BBC Proms).
Born in Yorkshire, Wigglesworth studied at New College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He was a Lecturer at Cambridge University and in January 2019 took up the position of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
His first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was in 2017, when he conducted works by his fellow countrymen Elgar, Britten and Knussen as well as his own Clocks from a Winter's Tale.
Ryan Wigglesworth, who took up the position of chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in September 2022, has established himself as one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. He was principal guest conductor of the Hallé Orchestra from 2015 to 2018 and composer in residence at English National Opera.
In close partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, he recently founded the Knussen Chamber Orchestra which made both its Aldeburgh Festival and BBC Proms debuts in 2019.
Recent guest appearances include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo, Seattle, Melbourne and Lahti Symphony Orchestras, and the London Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the BBC Proms in 2023 for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the UK premiere of Kurtág’s opera Endgame.
Wigglesworth is also active as a concert pianist, having performed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven in Europe and East-Asia and regularly appearing in recital partnering with Mark Padmore, Lawrence Power and Sophie Bevan.
His first opera, The Winter’s Tale, premiered at English National Opera in 2017 in a production conducted by the composer. Other works include commissions from the Royal Concertgebouw and Cleveland orchestras, BBC Symphony (BBC Proms).
Born in Yorkshire, Wigglesworth studied at New College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He was a Lecturer at Cambridge University and in January 2019 took up the position of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
His first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was in 2017, when he conducted works by his fellow countrymen Elgar, Britten and Knussen as well as his own Clocks from a Winter's Tale.
Ryan Wigglesworth, who took up the position of chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in September 2022, has established himself as one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. He was principal guest conductor of the Hallé Orchestra from 2015 to 2018 and composer in residence at English National Opera.
In close partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, he recently founded the Knussen Chamber Orchestra which made both its Aldeburgh Festival and BBC Proms debuts in 2019.
Recent guest appearances include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo, Seattle, Melbourne and Lahti Symphony Orchestras, and the London Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the BBC Proms in 2023 for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the UK premiere of Kurtág’s opera Endgame.
Wigglesworth is also active as a concert pianist, having performed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven in Europe and East-Asia and regularly appearing in recital partnering with Mark Padmore, Lawrence Power and Sophie Bevan.
His first opera, The Winter’s Tale, premiered at English National Opera in 2017 in a production conducted by the composer. Other works include commissions from the Royal Concertgebouw and Cleveland orchestras, BBC Symphony (BBC Proms).
Born in Yorkshire, Wigglesworth studied at New College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He was a Lecturer at Cambridge University and in January 2019 took up the position of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
His first appearance with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was in 2017, when he conducted works by his fellow countrymen Elgar, Britten and Knussen as well as his own Clocks from a Winter's Tale.