Born in Sussex, England, Mark Wigglesworth studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and won the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in 1989.
Since then he has worked with many of the leading European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic. He has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Amsterdam Mahler Festival, and the BBC Proms; worked in Australia with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras; and has held positions as Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Opera Factory, London.
In North America, Mark Wigglesworth's work has included concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. He regularly conducts the Minnesota Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony and has an ongoing relationship with the New World Symphony.
Mark Wigglesworth led his first opera production in 1991, conducting Cosi fan Tutte for Opera Factory in London. Since then he has conducted Peter Grimes, La Boheme and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival; Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk, Falstaff and Cosi fan Tutte for English National Opera in London; The Rake's Progress, Elektra and Tristan und Isolde with Welsh National Opera; Mitridate and Wozzeck at La Monnaie, Brussels; Peter Grimes at the Netherlands Opera, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2005, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Le Nozze di Figaro.
Mark Wigglesworth is currently in the process of recording a complete Shostakovich Symphony cycle with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for BIS.
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