Bas Wiegers
Conductor
Bas Wiegers - Conductor

With esprit and undogmatic openness, Bas Wiegers is recommended to conduct well-known European orchestras and soloist ensembles. For his detailed work, the conductor drew on his many years of experience as a violinist and his well-founded knowledge of the repertoire from the Baroque to today’s music.
In his native Netherlands, Bas Wiegers has worked with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and alongside Peter Eötvös with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has also made guest appearances with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, the Ensemble Modern, the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart and at festivals such as November Music, Holland Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Almeida Festival, Aldeburgh Music Festival and Eight Bridges in Cologne.
In September 2018, Bas Wiegers was appointed first guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, with whom he will be performing in the 2019/20 season at Wien Modern and the Kölner Philharmonie, among others. Overall, the new season is varied: he performs Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in Arnhem and makes his debut at the Stuttgart State Opera with Death in Venice. For the premiere of Sciarrino’s new opera Il canto s’attrista, perché? Bas Wiegers returns to the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, with the Het Gelders Orkest and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra he conducted the program from Rebel to Mozart and Schubert to Schreker, most recently he made his debut with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Resonanz (Donaueschingen).
As opera directors, Bas Wiegers conducted Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Britten’s Noah’s Sintflut, Kyriakides’ An Ocean of Rain, as well as Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and La Voix Humaine. In 2017 he launched Helmut Oehring’s KUNST MUSS (too far go) or DER ENGEL SCHWIEG at the Cologne Opera. In March 2019 he premiered the revised version of Georg Friedrich Haas’ successful opera Koma at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
Bas Wiegers is a valued partner for composers such as Louis Andriessen, Georges Aperghis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pierluigi Billone, Helmut Lachenmann and Rebecca Saunders.
Following his musical training in Amsterdam and Freiburg, Bas Wiegers initially devoted himself to a successful career as a violinist with a focus on historical performance practice. In 2009 he was awarded the Conducting Scholarship of the Kersjes Foundation. Assistants to Mariss Jansons and Susanna Mälkki at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra followed, encouraging him to concentrate fully on conducting.
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
tauchgold
Text, concept and scenic set-up
tauchgold - Text, concept and scenic set-up

Since 2007 tauchgold (Heike Tauch and Florian Goldberg) have been realising plays at the interface of radio and stage. Their works include social satires, historical dramas and philosophical material. However, specially composed music always plays a central role. In 2019, her stage work “Das Gläserne Meer – Ein Narratorium für Streicher und Stimmen” (The Glass Sea – A Narratorio for Strings and Voices) premiered in Munich, with a composition by Cathy Milliken based on the radio play “Metamorphoses”. For “Borrowed Landscape – A Narratorio for Piano Trio and Voices”, composer Dai Fujikura wrote the music (2022). In June 2022, tauchgold already realised the RSB’s “Mensch, Musik!”#4 project entitled “Wanderungen”. The two following “Mensch, Musik!” projects in spring 2023 will also be created together with tauchgold.
The issue of leadership never leaves us. From questions of lifestyle to leadership courses and politics.
Where does the abyss lurk?
What distinguishes the political from the private seducers?
In order to make the magic of symphonic music accessible to those who have had little contact with it, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin has been exploring new, surprising paths since 2021 with the series “Mensch, Musik! Responsible for text, concept and realisation, the artist duo tauchgold combines the work of artists from different genres into a new, exciting whole.
Three conductors lead the RSB out of the familiar concert business and into interdisciplinary performance. The RSB is the first large orchestra to take this experimental path.
The programme for this performance is still to be announced.
More concerts
“Don Quixote” – An adventurous tale of heroes
Strauss
Moderated rehearsal with Vladimir Jurowski
in cooperation with Südddeutsche Zeitung