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Mark Wigglesworth was born in Sussex, England and after studying conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London, won the Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in The Netherlands in 1989. In 1992 he became Associate Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and since then has held the positions of Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Mark has guest conducted most of the UK’s orchestras and has worked with many of Europe’s finest ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic; Amsterdam Concertgebouw; La Scala Filarmonica, Milan; Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome; Gothenburg Symphony; Stockholm Philharmonic; Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Radio Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He is just as busy in North America having been invited to the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and the Boston Symphony. He frequently visits the Minnesota Orchestra and Detroit Symphony and has an on-going relationship with the New World Symphony. In Australia he works regularly with both the Sydney and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

Equally at home in the Opera House, Mark Wigglesworth started his operatic career with a period as Music Director of Opera Factory, London, and has since worked at Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes, La Boheme, Le Nozze di Figaro), Welsh National Opera (Elektra, The Rake's Progress, Tristan und Isolde), and English National Opera (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Cosi fan Tutte, Falstaff, Katya Kabanova). He has conducted at the Netherlands Opera (Peter Grimes); La Monnaie in Brussels (Mitridate, Wozzeck, Pelleas et Melisande); The Metropolitan Opera, New York (Le Nozze di Figaro); and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). In 2009 he made his debut at the Sydney Opera House, conducting a new production of Peter Grimes and in 2011 returns to ENO for Parsifal.

Mark's work in the recording studio has centred around a project with BIS Records to record all the symphonies of Shostakovich. Now nearing its completion, this cycle has received critical acclaim throughout the world.

Albion Media worked with the British conductor Mark Wigglesworth to raise his profile in the UK media, including arranging for the placement of his music blog onto Gramophone Magazine’s website.