Baldur Brönnimann

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Baldur Brönnimann

Baldur Brönnimann is a Swiss conductor. He is currently principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música, and principal conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta.[1]

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. From 2008 to 2012, Brönniman was the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, and from 2011 to 2015, he was artistic director of Norway's BIT20 Ensemble.[2] rönnimann is currently principal conductor of Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto Casa da Música[3] and principal conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta.[4]

Guest conducting engagements have included Frankfurt Radio Symphony, WDR Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Brönnimann has conducted at many festivals, including the BBC Proms, Wien Modern, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Bergen International Festival, Lucerne Festival, and the Warsaw Autumn festival.

Brönnimann is committed to contemporary music and has championed the music of composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Unsuk Chin, Thomas Adès, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, and Magnus Lindberg.[5]

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

Discography[]

Brönniman has recorded two CDs. In 2012, AO Vivo, a recording of works by Pascal Dusapin, with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música and the Remix Ensemble, and in 2017, György Ligeti's Concertos & Melodien, with the BIT20 Ensemble.

References[]

  1. ^ Biography — Baldur Brönnimann at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 October 2019)
  2. ^ "Baldur Brönnimann". Intermusica. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Baldur Brönnimann". Casa da Música (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Orchester". Basel Sinfonietta (in German). Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  5. ^ Yáñez, Paco (26 December 2018). "Entrevista con Baldur Brönnimann (1) La música contemporánea se ha hecho mucho más global". Mundoclasico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  6. ^ Seckerson, Edward (22 October 2011). "Ligeti Le Grand Macabre, English National Opera, London Coliseum, London". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

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