Benjamin Bayl
Conductor
Benjamin Bayl is Associate Director of The Hanover Band, and Co-Founder of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra.
Benjamin Bayl is co-Founder of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and Associate Director of The Hanover Band. Born and raised in Sydney, he was the first Australian Organ Scholar of King’s College Cambridge, and studied conducting at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He assisted Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Richard Hickox, and was Assistant Conductor to the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Konzerthausorchester Berlin with Iván Fischer.
Benjamin recently made highly successful debuts with Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Berlin Philharmonie), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica Medellín and Philharmonie Zuidnederland, as well as conducting extensively throughout Italy, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia. In Australasia he appears with the SSO, QSO, MSO, CSO, Singapore Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras.
In the realm of opera, he has led productions at Wiener Staatsoper, Dutch National Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Royal Danish Opera, Den Norske Opera, Theater an der Wien, Opera Vlaanderen, Opera de Oviedo, Staatsoper Hannover, Budapest State Opera, Polish National Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater Aachen & Opera Australia.
Parallel to his symphonic engagements, he works extensively with period instrument ensembles such as B’Rock, Vocalconsort Berlin, Concerto Copenhagen, Concerto Köln, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Australian Haydn Ensemble, and The Hanover Band – with whom he just recorded a complete Beethoven Symphony cycle. He made his debut in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw with Collegium Vocale Gent and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and other festival appearances include Edinburgh, Melbourne, Savonlinna, Cartagena, Ruhrtriennale, Euro Klassik Berlin & Chopin Festival Warsaw.
Benjamin dedicates time to nurture and inspire the next generation of musicians, often directing projects for organisations including ANAM, Sydney Conservatorium, Dutch National Opera Studio, Netherlands Youth Orchestra, and the Slovak Youth Orchestra. www.benjaminbayl.com.
