Ryan Wigglesworth took up the position of Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in September 2022. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Hallé from 2015 to 2018 and has served as Composer in Residence at English National Opera. For the seasons 2013 / 14 and 2014 / 15 he held the Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellowship with the Cleveland Orchestra and was Composer in Residence at the 2018 Grafenegg Festival. In close partnership with the Royal Academy of Music, he founded the Knussen Chamber Orchestra which made both its Aldeburgh Festival and BBC Proms débuts in 2019. In recent seasons he has appeared with leading orchestras throughout Europe, the USA, and Japan, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is a regular guest at the Proms. Also active as a pianist, he has recently played and directed concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and he regularly appears in recital partnering Mark Padmore, Lawrence Power, and Sophie Bevan. One of the leading composers of his day, he saw his first opera, The Winter’s Tale, premièred at English National Opera in February 2017. He has also received commissions from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra, and composed song cycles for Sophie Bevan, Mark Padmore, and Roderick Williams. His most recent work, Magnificat, was premièred by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner in April 2022, and received its UK première, with the Hallé, in March 2023. Born in Yorkshire, Ryan Wigglesworth studied at New College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a Lecturer at Cambridge University where he was also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In January 2019 he took up the position of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.