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About Barry Wordsworth
- Barry Wordsworth (born 20 February 1948, Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British conductor. From 1989 to 2006, Wordsworth was principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, becoming conductor laureate in 2006.
- He is Music Director of the Royal Ballet Covent Garden having also held this position from 1990 to 1995.
- He began his second tenure in that post in 2007.
- Since 1989, he is Music Director and the principal conductor of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO).
- In March 2007 at Brighton, Wordsworth caused controversy when he refused to conduct Andrew Gant's new composition A British Symphony the day of the scheduled premiere.
- He was music director of Birmingham Royal Ballet from 2005 to 2008. Wordsworth's discography includes works by lesser-known British composers alongside more mainstream pieces.
- In his career Wordsworth has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras in the UK and overseas.
- He has made many appearances at the BBC Proms and conducted the Last Night of the Proms in 1993 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
- In 2003, he was the first conductor to record commercially all nine surviving movements of Constant Lambert's ballet Horoscope (only a suite of five movements had previously been recorded).
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