Biography
Co-Founder of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, he is widely recognised for his historically informed approach to baroque, classical and romantic repertoire, as well as his flair for opera and contemporary music.
Upcoming season highlights include debuts and returns to New Zealand Opera (Bizet Les pêcheurs de perles), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia), Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Île de France, MusikTheater an der Wien, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Collegium Vocale Gent, Hungarian National Opera, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, The Grange Festival with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra and Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has performed extensively across Australasia and Europe, working with all the major Australian orchestras, Auckland Philharmonia, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic and Taipei Symphony Orchestras, as well as Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, and Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano. He has conducted many German orchestras including Aachen, Bochum and Bremen, as well as several Scandinavian orchestras in Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Gävle, Odense, Stavanger and Umeå.
A regular at major opera houses worldwide, he has conducted productions for Staatsoper Berlin (Purcell The Fairy Queen), Royal Danish Opera (Mozart Don Giovanni), Opera Australia (Handel Orlando), Dutch National Opera (Cimarosa Il matrimonio Segreto), Wiener Staatsoper (Johanna Doderer Fatima oder von den mutigen Kindern), Staatsoper Hannover (Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice), Den Norske Opera Oslo (Mozart Don Giovanni), Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Bizet Carmen), Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride and Mozart Idomeneo), Budapest State Opera (Purcell The Fairy Queen and Mozart Così fan tutte), Polish National Opera (Mozart La Clemenza di Tito), Savonlinna Opera Festival (Giulio Cesare) and Opéra de Oviedo (Handel Agrippina and Mozart Le nozze di Figaro). For Staatsoper Stuttgart he has conducted Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans, Rameau Platée, and baroque pasticcio “La Fest” which he also curated. He is a regular guest at MusikTheater an der Wien where his titles have included Bernstein Candide, Cavalli Il Giasone, Charpentier Medée, plus Flavio and Radamisto by Handel, and at Warsaw Chamber Opera leading several Mozart titles, Lully Armide, Rameau Castor et Pollux and Pygmalion.
Bayl brings particular insight to the Viennese classics, historically informed baroque and romantic works, and world premieres of new commissions. A specialist in period performance, he has directed ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and led Concerto Köln at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival. He has also appeared with B’Rock, Vocalconsort Berlin, Bach Consort Wien, Orfeo Zenekar, Concerto Copenhagen and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra. He was Associate Director of The Hanover Band for many seasons, where he led numerous projects including the recording of a Beethoven Symphony cycle, and the ensemble’s first tour to China.
Committed to education and mentorship, he has led projects with young artists at the Australian National Academy of Music, Netherlands Youth Orchestra and Slovak Youth Orchestra.
Holding both Dutch and Australian nationality, Bayl was the first Australian Organ Scholar of King’s College Cambridge. After studying conducting at London’s Royal Academy of Music and National Opera Studio, he was appointed Assistant Conductor to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He also worked alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Daniel Harding with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.