Facundo Agudín

Facundo Agudin is a Swiss-Argentine conductor born in Buenos Aires. After completing a Master’s programme in Conducting at the Universidad Católica Argentina under Professors Néstor Andrenacci and Guillermo Scarabino, he was trained in medieval music in Bologna under Pedro Memelsdorff and completed postgraduate studies on Historical Composition at the Schola Cantorum in Basle, where he resides since 1996. As a baritone, his six-year professional experience with the Swiss Chamber Choir and the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, singing under Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Armin Jordan, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Gennadii Roshdestwenskii, David Zinman and in particular Valery Gergiev, provided major impulses for his further development as a conductor. In 2007, he was granted the First Prize at the Col