New UK chief takes second job in Australia
OrchestrasThe Adelaide Symphony Orchestra has appointed Mark Wigglesworth as Chief Conductor for the next three years.
Two months ago Wigglesworth took on the same position at Bournemouth.
The commuting could be tiresome.
Wigglesworth said: ‘“I have been working with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for the last ten years and every performance we have given together has been a truly memorable experience for me. The musicians are exceptional, as individuals and as a group, and I feel there is no limit to what we can achieve together.’
Great appointment for Adelaide, which seems to have been without a chief conductor since Nicholas Carter finished there at the end of 2019. Hope Wigglesworth will still have time to appear in other Australian cities and will be invited to do so.
I was hoping he’d become Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after the tenure of Sir Andrew Davis came to a close in 2019. I saw Wigglesworth conduct some wonderful Mahler and other performances with the MSO years ago, so hopefully we’ll see him in Melbourne again.
He would have been a good appointment in Melbourne, but Jaime Martin is doing a wonderful job with the MSO.