Bertie Baigent

Bertie Baigent
Born Robert Edward Series Baigent
(1995-03-26) 26 March 1995
Oxford
Era Contemporary

Robert Edward Series Baigent is a British conductor, composer, and organist. He is the conductor of the London Young Sinfonia,[1] musical director of the Waterperry Opera Festival,[2] and was previously organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge[3] and conductor of Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.[4] He also directs the Percival Ensemble, a Cambridge-based orchestra that he founded in 2014.

Baigent has won prizes in numerous composition competitions, including the Stainer and Bell Award for Choral Composition,[5][6] the BBC Inspire Competition 2013,[7] and the NCEM Young Composers Award.[8][9] His work Joie de Vivre was commissioned for and played at the unveiling of a plaque to mark the first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the City of Westminster.[10][11][12][13] Baigent's compositions have been performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Antonio Pappano, the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon, the Bath Philharmonia and Fretwork.[4] In 2015 a recording of his organ work Bright spark, shot from a brighter place was released by the German CD label Jubal.[14][15] His grandfather was the physicist George Series.

References

  1. ↑ "London Young Sinfonia - About".
  2. ↑ "Conductor - Bertie Baigent".
  3. ↑ "Jesus College Choir – Organ Scholars". jesuscollegechoir.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  4. 1 2 "Biography – Bertie Baigent | Conductor, composer, organist". bertiebaigent.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  5. ↑ "News from Choir & Organ Magazine". Choir & Organ. UK: Rhinegold Publishing. Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  6. ↑ "Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015". stainer.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  7. ↑ "BBC Inspire".
  8. ↑ Andy Campbell. "NCEM – The National Centre for Early Music – NCEM Young Composers Award 2011 – Winners". ncem.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  9. ↑ "Winners announced in National Centre for Early Music Instrumental Composers Award (From York Press)". m.yorkpress.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  10. ↑ "City of Westminster, Royal Philharmonic Society Unveil Plaque for Beethoven's 'Ninth' : Classicalite". classicalite.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  11. ↑ "Plaque to mark Beethoven's Ninth Symphony". BBC News. UK: BBC. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  12. ↑ "Beethoven plaque unveiled to mark first 9th Symphony performance". Beethoven News. classicfm.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  13. ↑ "Westminster City Council plaque marks the site of the first UK performance of Beethoven's Ninth | gramophone.co.uk". gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  14. ↑ "CD Release: The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar". robert-smith.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
  15. ↑ "Jubal CD Catalogue: Organ Music". jubal.de. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
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