Baldur Brönnimann is a conductor of great flexibility with a broad-minded approach to programme-building and music-making.
He is deeply committed to making classical music relevant in the 21st century and as such is active as both a commissioner of new works and as a curator of festivals and series. He is the Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Real Filharmonia de Galicia and Escola de Altos Estudos Musicais, course director of the Contemporary-Conducting Program at the Lucerne Festival Academy and co‑founder of the Between Mountains Festival in Switzerland, a 24‑hour celebration of classical, ambient, electronic and contemporary music, which launched in July 2025.
In the opera house, Brönnimann has conducted Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at English National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin and Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) in both the La Fura dels Baus and Barrie Kosky productions, John Adams’s Death of Klinghoffer at English National Opera, Saariaho’s L’amour de loin at the Bergen Festival and Norwegian Opera, and Romitelli’s Index of Metals with Barbara Hannigan at the Theater an der Wien. At Argentina’s Teatro Colón he has also conducted Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Szymanowski’s Hagith, and Helmut Lachenmann’s The Little Match Girl with the composer as narrator, and Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten.
