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Bertie Baigent

p, vc, *1995
Musician

Bertie Baigent was born in 1995 in Oxford, and his interest in music began from an early age. He holds diplomas for the cello, piano, and organ, and now focuses on conducting and composing while remaining active as a instrumentalist. He is in his second year reading music at Jesus College, Cambridge where he holds the position of Organ Scholar. Bertie's studies conducting with Nicholas Cleobury and has taken part in masterclasses with Peter Stark and Paul Brough. In 2014 he founded the Percival Ensemble, a group drawn from Cambridge's finest musicians, dedicated to performing small-scale nineteenth- and early twentieth-century orchestral music; most recently they performed de Falla’s El Corregidor y la Molinera and future projects include Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Last November Bertie made his opera debut with a production of Handel’s Semele with Cambridge University Opera Society. While in the National Youth Orchestra, he frequently conducted his own compositions with ensembles from the orchestra, in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall. Bertie’s compositions have been performed by artists such as the Britten Sinfonia, Fretwork, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Aurora Orchestra, the Bath Philharmonia, and the Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge in important venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, and the Royal College of Music; in addition two have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His compositions have been awarded accolades by the BBC, the University of Cambridge, the National Centre for Early Music, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal College of Organists; recent commissions have come from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Elysian Singers.

Instruments

• Piano
• Violoncello

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