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About Bertie
Music Director: Waterperry Opera Festival
In June 2022 Bertie Baigent won the Grand Prix at the inaugural International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam, along with the Classical and Symphonic prizes.
The 2023/24 season sees Bertie debut with the London Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Bruckner Orchester Linz and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. He also returns to the City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic (for his subscription debut) and Glyndebourne Festival Opera (for performances of Handel’s Messiah).
Bertie has been Music Director of Waterperry Opera Festival since 2017. There and elsewhere he has conducted productions of Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Dido and Aeneas and Partenope – directing the latter two from the harpsichord. He made his Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in summer 2023, stepping in to conduct Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.
Born in 1995, Bertie studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was awarded the Orchestra Prize by the New Japan Philharmonic at the Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 2021.
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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Bertie Baigent conducts the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 1
Filmed in June 2022 Credit: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam
PlayingBertie Baigent conducts Rotterdam Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
Filmed in June 2022 Credit: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam
PlayingBertie Baigent conducts Rotterdam Philharmonic in Joey Roukens’ Night Flight
Filmed in June 2022 Credit: International Conducting Competition Rotterdam
PlayingBertie Baigent conducts the New Japan Philharmonic in Strauss' Tod und Verklärung
Filmed in October 2021 Credit: Tokyo International Conducting Competition
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News
Bertie Baigent returns to Rotterdam Philharmonic
Bertie Baigent debuts with Detroit Symphony
Bertie Baigent debuts with Tampere Philharmonic
Bertie Baigent debuts at Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Bertie Baigent tours with Phion and debuts at Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Bertie Baigent debuts with CBSO
Bertie Baigent returns to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Bertie Baigent wins Rotterdam Conducting Competition
Press
Hermann and Bernstein with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Usher Hall, EdinburghMay 2024The RSNO, sparkily conducted by Bertie Baigent, imbued Bernard Herrmann’s music for Hitchcock’s film Vertigo with nerve-jangling immediacy and shimmering passion, and the biggest adrenaline rush of the evening came from the exhilarating pile-up of rhythms in the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story.
- Simon Thompson, The Times
- 05 May 2024
The RSNO…ably cued and shaped by nimble, insightful conductor Bertie Baigent. There was a more traditional orchestral set-up after the interval for Baigent’s vivid, strongly characterised Vertigo music by Herrmann, plus Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, played with just the same vigour and enthusiasm. It was a concert of surprises, connections, and revelations. *****
- David Kettle, The Scotsman
- 06 May 2024