New tasks for Baldur Brönnimann
The Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann has been appointed conductor and artistic director of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia. He will take up the post in January 2023, succeeding Paul Daniel.
With Brönnimann, the Real Filharmonía de Galicia is gaining an artistic director "with a committed social approach and a pronounced sensitivity for topics such as education and contemporary creation", writes the orchestra. Founded in 1996 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, the ensemble was initially conducted by Helmut Rilling, among others.
Baldur Brönnimann, born in Basel in 1968 and raised in Pratteln, trained at the Basel Music Academy and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, has been Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta since the 2016/17 season.
Until 2020, he was Chief Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica of the Casa da Música in Porto and previously Artistic Director of the Norwegian contemporary music ensemble BIT20 and Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia in Bogotá. Brönnimann lives in Madrid.
