Bertie Baigent Explained

Bertie Baigent
Birth Date:1995 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Oxford, England
Era:Contemporary
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Robert Edward Series "Bertie" Baigent (born 26 March 1995) is a British conductor, composer, and organist.

Biography

Baigent's aunt is the mathematician Caroline Series. His grandfather was the physicist George Series. Baigent read music at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar (2013) and where his teachers included Benjamin Walton. He subsequently completed an MA at the Royal Academy of Music in 2018, where his instructors included Sian Edwards.

Conducting career

Baigent was conductor of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently of the London Young Sinfonia from 2016 to 2018. Baigent has been music director of Waterperry Opera Festival since 2017.[1] From 2018 until 2020, he was the assistant conductor of the Colorado Symphony and principal guest conductor of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.[2]

In February 2022, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra appointed Baigent as one of its new roster of six assistant conductors.[3] In June 2022, Baigent was awarded the Grand Prix for the best overall performance at the inaugural International Conducting Competition Rotterdam, as well as winning the Classical Award and the Symphony Award.[4] [5] Subsequently, also in June 2022, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Baigent as its new assistant conductor.[6]

As a guest conductor, Baigent has appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino and the New Japan Philharmonic. In June 2023, he made his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival.[7]

Compositional career

Baigent has won prizes in numerous composition competitions, including the Stainer and Bell Award for Choral Composition,[8] [9] the BBC Inspire Competition 2013,[10] and the NCEM Young Composers Award.[11] [12] His work Joie de Vivre was commissioned for and played at the unveiling of a plaque to mark the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the City of Westminster.[13] [14] [15] [16] Baigent's compositions have been performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Antonio Pappano, the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon, the Bath Philharmonia and Fretwork. In 2015, a recording of his organ work Bright spark, shot from a brighter place was released by the German CD label JUBAL.[17] [18] His opera Paradise Lost, based on Milton’s eponymous epic poem, premiered in London in August 2022.[19]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Conductor - Bertie Baigent.
  2. Web site: DYAO Side-by-Side . 2018-10-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181027232024/https://www.denver.org/event/dyao-side-by-side/61560/ . 2018-10-27 . dead .
  3. Meet the new CBSO Assistant Conductors . City of Birmingham Orchestra . 16 February 2022 . 2022-06-07 . 17 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220217084303/https://cbso.co.uk/news/meet-the-new-cbso-assistant-conductors . dead .
  4. Web site: Winners. 2022-06-07. International Conducting Competition Rotterdam. 3 June 2022 .
  5. News: Bertie Baigent is de eerste winnaar van nieuw dirigentenconcours in Rotterdam. NRC Handelsblad . 2022-06-07.
  6. ICCR-winnaar Bertie Baigent wordt assistent-dirigent . Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra . 21 June 2022 . 2022-06-21.
  7. Web site: Glyndebourne Festival Opera: L'elisir d'amore . https://web.archive.org/web/20230611203329/http://www.glyndebourne.com/events/lelisir-damore/. Glyndebourne Festival Opera . 2023-06-11 . dead.
  8. Web site: News from Choir & Organ Magazine. Choir & Organ. Rhinegold Publishing. UK. 2015-12-19. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151007164012/http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/magazines/choir_and_organ/news/choir_organ_news_story.asp?id=7319. 2015-10-07.
  9. Web site: Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015. stainer.co.uk. 2015-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160127152444/http://www.stainer.co.uk/choralcomp15.html. 2016-01-27. dead.
  10. Web site: BBC Inspire.
  11. Web site: NCEM – The National Centre for Early Music – NCEM Young Composers Award 2011 – Winners. Andy Campbell. ncem.co.uk. 2015-12-19.
  12. Web site: Winners announced in National Centre for Early Music Instrumental Composers Award (From York Press). 4 November 2011 . m.yorkpress.co.uk. 2015-12-19.
  13. Web site: City of Westminster, Royal Philharmonic Society Unveil Plaque for Beethoven's 'Ninth' : Classicalite. classicalite.com. 2015-12-19.
  14. News: Plaque to mark Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . . 8 August 2013 . . UK . 2015-12-19.
  15. Web site: Beethoven plaque unveiled to mark first 9th Symphony performance . Beethoven News. classicfm.com. 2015-12-19.
  16. Web site: Westminster City Council plaque marks the site of the first UK performance of Beethoven's Ninth | gramophone.co.uk. gramophone.co.uk. 2015-12-19.
  17. Web site: CD Release: The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar. robertpecksmith.co.uk. 2021-01-31.
  18. Web site: Jubal CD Catalogue: Organ Music. jubal.de. 2016-01-02.
  19. Web site: Paradise Lost: a new opera by Bertie Baigent after John Milton. theshipwright.co.uk. 2022-06-07.

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