Bertie Baigent

Robert Edward Series Baigent is a British conductor, composer, and organist. He is musical director of the Waterperry Opera Festival,[1] assistant conductor of the Colorado Symphony,[2] and principal guest conductor of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.[3] Previously he was conductor of the London Young Sinfonia,[4] organ scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge[5] and conductor of Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.[6] He also directs the Percival Ensemble, a Cambridge-based orchestra that he founded in 2014.

Bertie Baigent
Born
Robert Edward Series Baigent

(1995-03-26) 26 March 1995
Oxford
EraContemporary

Baigent has won prizes in numerous composition competitions, including the Stainer and Bell Award for Choral Composition,[7][8] the BBC Inspire Competition 2013,[9] and the NCEM Young Composers Award.[10][11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[6] In 2015 a recording of his organ work Bright spark, shot from a brighter place was released by the German CD label JUBAL.[16][17]

Bertie read music at Jesus College, Cambridge, and subsequently completed an MA at the Royal Academy of Music. His aunt is the mathematician Caroline Series, and his grandfather was the physicist George Series.

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  10. Andy Campbell. "NCEM – The National Centre for Early Music – NCEM Young Composers Award 2011 – Winners". ncem.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  11. "Winners announced in National Centre for Early Music Instrumental Composers Award (From York Press)". m.yorkpress.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  12. "City of Westminster, Royal Philharmonic Society Unveil Plaque for Beethoven's 'Ninth' : Classicalite". classicalite.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
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  14. "Beethoven plaque unveiled to mark first 9th Symphony performance". Beethoven News. classicfm.com. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
  15. "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.
  16. "CD Release: The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar". robertpecksmith.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  17. "Jubal CD Catalogue: Organ Music". jubal.de. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
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