Baldur Brönnimann

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Baldur Brönnimann, born in 1968 in Basel, is a Swiss conductor. He studied at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel and was a junior fellow in conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. From 2008 to 2012 he was music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, and from 2011 to 2015 he led Norway's BIT20 Ensemble as artistic director. Brönnimann was principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto Casa da Música from 2015 to 2020. He became the first principal conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta in 2016, a post he held until the end of the 2022–23 season. He has conducted works by contemporary composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Unsuk Chin, Thomas Adès, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann and Magnus Lindberg. Brönnimann made his operatic debut with English National Opera in 2008 with Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway. He returned to ENO for John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer and for La Fura dels Baus's production of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, which he also conducted at Teatro Colón in Argentina and at Komische Oper Berlin in 2013. He has made several recordings, including a recording of works by Pascal Dusapin with the Porto orchestra and the Remix Ensemble, and an album of György Ligeti concertos and his Melodien with the BIT20 Ensemble.