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 Colin Metters Seminar with the St Petersbourg Symphony Orchestra. Based in Basle, he is artistic and music director of Musique des Lumières, as well as of contemporary opera company Opera Obliqua. He is co-founder of Neue Opernprojekte Basel and Festival Stand’Eté. Since 2009, he has also been Principal Conductor of the Patagonia Symphony (Argentina) in cooperation with the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires. Between 2006 and 2008, he worked as principal Guest Conductor at the Armenian National Opera Theatre, and recently became a guest of the Mariinsky Theatre conducting  Gounod’s Faust in 2014 and 2015.

Together with Daniel Barenboim and Alejo Pérez, Agudin integrates the short list of nominees to the award « Best Argentine Conductor 2015 », granted by the national Music Critics Association.

Both on symphonic and opera repertoires, he has collaborated with Prague Chamber Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Biel Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, State Opera Orchestra of Armenia, Kislovodsk Philharmonic, Polish National Opera – Teatr Wielki Poznan, Teatro Colon Philharmonic, National Symphony of Argentina, Orquesta del Teatro Argentino de La Plata, Orchestra CRT Torino, Sinfonica Aosta, Orchestra Classica Italiana, Orchestre Symphonique de Besançon, Ensemble Ars Nova Poitiers, Orchestre de Cannes, Desaga Chamber Orchestra.

Since 2012, Agudin develops a consistent collaboration with Argentina’s National Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recently gave acclaimed performances of Stravinsky’s Firebird and Oedipus Rex, Britten’s War Requiem and Elgar’s violin concerto with soloist Xavier Inchausti in Buenos Aires. Among his next engagements are to mentioned Berlioz’ Romeo et Juliette (National Symphony), Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder (Paula Almerares, Buenos Aires Philharmonic), Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Marcelo Lombarden, Teatro Colòn de Buenos Aires), Debut at Enescu Festival 2017 with Desaga Chamber Orchestra.

Facundo Agudin has premiered works by Andreas Pflüger, Christian Favre, Jaqueline Fontyn, Dominique Gesseney, Christian Giger, Elmar Lampson, David Sonton, Julio Viera, Pablo Ortiz and Marcelo Nisinman. He collaborates with Universal Music Group and was asked by Ricordi Munich to promote the rediscovery of Simon Mayr’s large operatic work.

In cooperation with RTS SRF Kultur2 and german label NEOS, Agudin and Musique des Lumières launched a recording series including works inspired by swiss art. The first production, “Cantique”, includes Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, Max Reger’s Böcklin-Suite and features the world premiere of “Pitture” by Andreas Pflüger (Estelle Revaz, cello).

Agudin collaborates with Swiss National Radio SRF 2 Kultur and labels NEOS Music, OehmsClassics, Doron Music. His recordings with Orchestre Musique des Lumières include Christian Favre’s Requiem (Doron Music), Robert Schumann’s Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (Doron Music), Simon Mayr’s Demetrio, re di Siria (DRS2/OehmsClassics), Nuevo Tango Nuevo (world premières by Marcelo Nisinman, Pablo Ortiz and Julio Viera, Oehms Classics), Cantique (featuring Bloch’s Schelomo, Reger’s Böclin-Suite and the world première of Andreas Pflüger’s cello concerto with soloist Estelle Revaz. NEOS Music).  In 2016, two new cd-releases are to appear : Nuevo Tango Nuevo 2 / Proyecto Cortazar and a revised version of Viktor Ullmann’s masterpiece Der Kaiser von Atlantis, after Agudin’s study of the manuscript at the Sacher Foundation in collaboration with Lisandro Abadie and Pablo Kornfeld.

Agudin regularly collaborates with artists such as Ramon Vargas and Rubén Amoretti (Verdi Requiem, Don Carlo, Tosca, Mephistophele), regisseurs such as Gustavo Tambascio (Giulio Cesare), Michal Znaniecki (Demetrio, Romulus der grosse), Bruno Ravella (Traviata), Louise Moaty (Der Kaiser von Atlantis). He much enjoys cooperating with soloists such as Sergio Tiempo, Paula Almerares, Marcelo Nisinman, Philippe Bianconi, Bénédicte Tauran, Armen Babakhanian, Catalin Desaga, Pablo Saravi, Mariano Rey, Xavier Inchausti.

On the contemporary opera scene, he recently commissioned and premiered “Romulus der grosse” by Andreas Pflüger, adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s comedy.  The new opera encountered great press success in Neuchâtel and Basel and a new production is to be staged in Madrid and Buenos Aires in 2018.

Agudin also dedicates himself to discovering and supporting young talent : as visiting professor he currently runs the Conducting Seminar at Buenos Aires National University for the Arts, in cooperation with the National Symphony Orchestra and

He is a member of the “Hebdo / Forum des 100”, hundred personalities who   actively contribute to the cultural life of Suisse Romande.