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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 2024/25 season see Bertie debut with the Osaka Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The previous season saw debuts with the London Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Bruckner Orchester Linz and Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, as well as returns to the City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic.

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, and was immediately reinvited to conduct their annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.

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.

Bertie is based in London

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Season Highlights

Oct 2024
Osaka Festival Hall
Boulanger: D'un Soir Triste Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 Imogen Cooper (piano) Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
Nov 2024
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Mendelssohn: Suite from A Midsummer Night's Dream Gulbenkian Orchestra
Feb 2025
Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte Mozart: Symphony No. 36 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra

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  • Hermann and Bernstein with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Usher Hall, Edinburgh
    May 2024
    • The 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. *****

Bertie Baigent debuts with CBSO

/23 November 2022

Bertie Baigent steps in to conduct the City of Birmingham Symphony debut this evening in a programme combining Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus with avian-inspired works by Beethoven, Tarrodi and Sibelius. The concert marks Bertie’s main season debut with the CBSO, having previously assisted the orchestra on tour in European and North America with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

Already this season Bertie has conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic following his Grand Prix win at the International Conducting Competition back in June. The months ahead will see him return to Rotterdam for performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and debut at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Phion Orchestra and BOZAR in Brussels with the Orchestra National de Lille.

Bertie will return to the UK at the end of the season for a project with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, before making his debut London Philharmonic conducting Mozart and Beethoven in autumn 2023.

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