Baldur Brönnimann

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Baldur Brönnimann, is a Swiss conductor.[1]

Baldur Bronnimann

Biography

Brönnimann was born in Switzerland, studied at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel and was a Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.[2]

He has regularly conducted the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and has been invited to conduct the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ensemble InterContemporain, Northern Sinfonia, London Sinfonietta, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Manson Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Baldur is committed to contemporary music and has championed the music of composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Brett Dean, Unsuk Chin, Thomas Ades, John Adams and Jonathan Harvey.[3][4][5]

He also conducts in the opera house, having made his operatic debut with English National Opera in 2008 with Olga Neuwirth Lost Highway since which time he has returned to ENO for productions of John Adams Death of Klinghoffer (Tom Morris) and La Fura dels Baus’s Ligeti Le Grand Macabre, a work which he also conducted at the Teatro Colón, Argentina, and at Komische Oper Berlin in the Barry Kosky revival in 2013. [6]

From 2007-2012, Brönniman was the music director of Colombia's National Symphony Orchestra,[7] and since 2011, he has been the Artistic Director of Norway's BIT20 Ensemble.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Baldur Brönnimann". Ehrsam Productions. Retrieved 6 August 2009. 
  2. ↑ http://intermusica.co.uk/artists/conductor/baldur-br%C3%B6nnimann/biography - Retrieved 14 August 2013
  3. ↑ "Baldur Brönnimann". Ehrsam Productions. Retrieved 6 August 2009. 
  4. ↑ "Biography". Retrieved 6 August 2009. 
  5. ↑ "Artists:Baldur Brönnimann:Biography". Intermusica. Retrieved 6 August 2009. 
  6. ↑ http://intermusica.co.uk/artists/conductor/baldur-br%C3%B6nnimann/biography (retrieved 2 October 2013)
  7. ↑ "Artists:Baldur Brönnimann:Biography". Intermusica. Retrieved 6 August 2009. 
  8. ↑ http://intermusica.co.uk/artists/conductor/baldur-br%C3%B6nnimann/biography - Retrieved 13 August 2013

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