Mark Wigglesworth
Conductor
Mark Wigglesworth studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London before coming to international prominence in August 1989, at the age of 25, as winner of the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in the Netherlands. Since then he has conducted many prestigious orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, the NDR Hamburg, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Sydney Symphony, leading the latter in the closing concert of the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
In opera he has performed the three Mozart/da Ponte Operas for Opera Factory, Elektra and The Rake's Progress at Welsh National Opera, Peter Grimes, La Bohème and Figaro at Glyndebourne, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Cosi fan Tutte at English National Opera and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Mark Wigglesworth's forthcoming symphonic engagements feature regular appearances with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland with whom he will be continuing his recordings of the complete Shostakovich Symphonies and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra of whom he was Principal Guest Conductor between 1998-2002. Future plans include returns to the Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and the Santa Cecilia, Rome as well as his debut with Pittsburgh Symphony. In 2004 he will conduct Peter Grimes at the Netherlands Opera and Falstaff at English National Opera.
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