Baldur Brönnimann

Swiss-born Baldur Brönnimann is held in the highest regard by many of today’s foremost composers and has conducted many major contemporary projects in recent seasons. Brönnimann also regularly guest conducts orchestras across the globe, in particular the UK, Scandinavia, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, and in 2009 made his debut with the Seoul Philharmonic. He is Music Director of the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra in Bogotá, a position he has held since 2008.

Highlights of Brönnimann’s 10/11 season included his return to the Bergen Festival to conduct a staged production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, following his hugely successful debut there with Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin in 2008, and his debut at the fabulously refurbished Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires with La Fura dels Baus’s production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre which he conducted to great critical acclaim at London’s Coliseum in Autumn 2009. Brönnimann also returned to London to conduct the Philharmonia in their Music of Today series, to the London Sinfonietta as part of the London Jazz Festival, to the Scottish Chamber and Iceland Symphony Orchestras, and he was be the first ever conductor of the Palestine National Orchestra conducting them in three concerts in December 2010.

Photo by Felix Broede.