Ryan Bancroft

Ryan Bancroft grew up in Los Angeles and first came to international attention in 2018, when he won both First Prize and Audience Prize at the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in Copenhagen. Since September 2021 he has been Principal Conductor of BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He is also Artist-in-Association with the Tapiola Sinfonietta and, since September 2023, has been Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

After beginning his tenure as Chief Conductor in Stockholm with the orchestra’s first performance of Sven-David Sandström’s The High Mass, his second season included performances of Mahler and Bruckner symphonies, alongside world premieres by Chrichan Larson and Zacharias Wolfe, and collaborations with renowned soloists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Maxim Vengerov and Víkingur Ólafsson.

This season he has made debuts with the Boston and Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie and the WDR Symphonieorchester in Cologne.

Ryan Bancroft has a passion for contemporary music and has performed with Amsterdam’s Nieuw Ensemble, assisted Pierre Boulez in a performance of his Sur incises in Los Angeles, premiered works by Sofia Gubaidulina, John Cage, James Tenney and Anne LeBaron, and has worked with improvisers such as Wadada Leo Smith and Charlie Haden. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and in the Netherlands.

Prif Arweinydd

Magwyd Ryan Bancroft yn Los Angeles a daeth i sylw rhyngwladol am y tro cyntaf yn 2018 pan enillodd y Wobr Gyntaf a Gwobr y Gynulleidfa yng Nghystadleuaeth Malko i Arweinyddion Ifanc yn Copenhagen. Ers mis Medi 2021, bu’n Brif Arweinydd Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC. Mae hefyd yn Artist Cyswllt gyda’r Tapiola Sinfonietta ac, ers mis Medi 2023, mae wedi bod yn Brif Arweinydd Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol Stockholm.

Ar ôl dechrau ar ei gyfnod fel Prif Arweinydd yn Stockholm gyda pherfformiad cyntaf y gerddorfa o The High Mass gan Sven-David Sandström, roedd ei ail dymor wedi cynnwys perfformiadau o symffonïau gan Mahler a Bruckner, ochr yn ochr â’r perfformiadau cyntaf erioed o weithiau gan Chrichan Larson a Zacharias Wolfe, a chydweithrediadau gydag unawdwyr enwog gan gynnwys Leif Ove Andsnes, Maxim Vengerov a Vikingur Ólafsson.

Y tymor hwn, mae wedi ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda cherddorfeydd Symffoni Radio Boston a’r Ffindir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin yn y Berlin Philharmonie, a’r WDR Symphonieorchester yn Cologne.

Mae Ryan Bancroft yn frwd dros gerddoriaeth gyfoes ac mae wedi perfformio gyda’r Nieuw Ensemble yn Amsterdam, wedi cynorthwyo Pierre Boulez mewn perfformiad o’i Sur incises yn Los Angeles, wedi rhoi’r perfformiad cyntaf o weithiau gan Sofia Gubaidulina, John Cage, James Tenney ac Anne LeBaron, ac wedi gweithio gyda cherddorion byrfyfyr fel Wadada Leo Smith a Charlie Haden. Astudiodd yn Sefydliad Celfyddydau Califfornia, Conservatoire Brenhinol yr Alban, ac yn yr Iseldiroedd.