Mark Wigglesworth

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Mark Wigglesworth (born 19 July 1964[1], Sussex, England) is a British conductor. He attended Bryanston School[2] and later was a conducting student at the Royal Academy of Music, London. At age 25, he won the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in 1989. During the 1990's, he worked with Opera Factory. John Drummond appointed him associate conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the early 1990s.[3]

Wigglesworth was the principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 1996 until 2000. In the US, he has been a regular guest conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.[4]

Wigglesworth made his first conducting appearance with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in November 2002.[5] He has also conducted at the Welsh National Opera[6] [7], the Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera[8] [9], and Glyndebourne[10].

In April 2006, Wigglesworth was named the next Music Director of the La Monnaie opera, Brussels, succeeding Kazushi Ono. Ono and Wigglesworth are scheduled to work together in the 2007-2008 season, and Wigglesworth was originally scheduled to assume sole control as Music Director with the 2008-2009 season.[11] In April 2008, La Monnaie announced that Wigglesworth would not take up the post of music director, after reports of opposition to him from the orchestra, although he is scheduled to fulfill his engagements for the 2008-2009 season.[12]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "July 19, 2007: Birthdays", The Times, 19 July 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-30. 
  2. ^ Richard Morrison. "Glynde born-again", The Times, 20 May 2003. Retrieved on 2007-08-30. 
  3. ^ Rupert Christiansen. "The Mr Motivator of the pit", Telegraph, 9 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  4. ^ Ben Mattison. "Critic Handicaps Candidates for Detroit Symphony Podium", Playbill Arts, 5 June 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-30. 
  5. ^ Rupert Christiansen. "Nurnberg's dark heart bypassed", Telegraph, 14 November 2002. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  6. ^ Rupert Christiansen. "The mating season", Telegraph, 2 October 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  7. ^ Rian Evans. "Tristan und Isolde", The Guardian, 2 October 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  8. ^ Rupert Christiansen. "Passing the Così test", Telegraph, 31 May 2002. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  9. ^ Erica Jeal. "Falstaff", The Guardian, 19 October 2004. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  10. ^ Erica Jeal. "Le Nozze di Figaro", The Guardian, 8 July 2003. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  11. ^ Vivien Schweitzer. "Mark Wigglesworth Appointed Music Director of Belgium's La Monnaie", Playbill Arts, 20 April 2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-29. 
  12. ^ Shirley Apthorp. "Feisty Orchestra Fuels Brussels Opera Changes", Bloomberg News, 10 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-10. 

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Preceded by
Tadaaki Otaka		 Principal Conductor, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
1996–2000		 Succeeded by
Richard Hickox
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