Bertie Baigent

In June 2022 Bertie Baigent won the Grand Prix at the inaugural International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam, along with the Classical and Symphonic prizes. He has since gone on to conduct the Rotterdam Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Phion Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Orchestre National de Lille at BOZAR.

In 2023/24 Bertie debuts with London Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and returns to the Rotterdam Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony and Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Bertie has been Music Director of Waterperry Opera Festival since 2017. There and elsewhere he has conducted productions of Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Così fan 
tutte, Dido and Aeneas and Partenope – directing the latter two from the harpsichord. He made his Opera Holland Park debut in 2021 and will assist on L’elisir d’amore at 
Glyndebourne Festival Opera in summer 2023.

Born in 1995, Bertie studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was awarded the Orchestra Prize by the New Japan Philharmonic at the Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 2021. His compositions have been awarded commissions and prizes by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the National Centre for Early Music.