Benjamin Bayl was Organ Scholar at Kings College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 2000 with first-class honours in Music. He gained the highest mark in Performance and played three times for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve - broadcast live worldwide to over 180 million people - as well as participating in a number of CD and DVD recordings, regular BBC broadcasts and period instrument performances and recordings. He has since studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Schola Cantorum Basel and the National Opera Studio.
Benjamin Bayl works widely in the operatic sphere as an assistant and repetiteur. He was recently assistant conductor for ENOs The Mikado, and was Music Director for an abridged Magic Flute for Opera Norths education department. He has played for Buxton Opera (Semele, Hercules and Maria de Buenos Aires, and Ascanio in Alba this year), ETO (Cosi fan tutte), The Jette Parker Young Artists, ENO and The Opera Group. He has played with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera (Boris Godunov, Wind in the Willows and Ariadne auf Naxos). He also recently played for Sir Simon Rattle (for the CBSOs recent recording of Mahlers Symphony no.8) and Sir Charles MacKerras with the Philharmonia Chorus (Der Freischütz).