With captivating energy and remarkable openness, Bas Wiegers is always at the cutting edge as a conductor. A guest of European symphony orchestras, soloist ensembles and opera houses, he masterfully spans the spectrum from Baroque to the music of today.
This programmatic range is also expressed in his successful work as Associated Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra – in the 2024/2025 season, they performed regularly in Munich and was seen at the Now! Festival Essen and Mozartfest Würzburg.
In 2024/2025, Wiegers was reinvited by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam, SWR Symphonieorchester, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. On the rostrum of the Klangforum Wien, of which he was Principal Guest Conductor until 2022, he gave his début at the Salzburg Festival 2024 for a concert performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’ KOMA. With Ensemble Modern, he appeared at the Venice Biennale for the first time. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pierre Boulez’s birth in 2025, Wiegers conducted Répons on a tour with the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble.
In his homeland of the Netherlands, Wiegers has worked with all major orchestras. In addition, he has guest conducted the Belgian National Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz, Britten Sinfonia and SWR Vokalensemble. He has conducted at the Cologne Opera, Opéra National de Lorraine, Bern Theatre and Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and appeared at festivals including Musikfest Berlin, Vienna Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Avanti! Summer Sounds, Prague Spring, Ruhrtriennale and Tiroler Festspiele Erl.
Wiegers is a treasured musical partner for composers such as Georges Aperghis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, Salvatore Sciarrino and Rebecca Saunders. On Wiegers’ podcast The Treasure Hunt, he regularly dives deep into the realm of scores and offers his listeners a very personal insight into his working process as a conductor. He is also involved in promoting young talent as a Board Member of the Kersjes Foundation and Guest Professor of Conducting at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
