JANE GLOVERConductor
Jane Glover studied at the University of Oxford, where, after graduation, she did her D.Phil. on 17th-century Venetian opera. She holds honorary degrees from several other universities, a personal Professorship at the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. She joined Glyndebourne in 1979, becoming Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985; and from 1984 to 1991, Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players. From 1990 to 1995 she served on the Board of Governors of the BBC and was created a CBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours. Recently appointed Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, London, she is also Music Director of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque.
Jane Glover has appeared with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne and Wexford Festivals, Berlin Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin , Opéra National de Bordeaux, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the Teatro La Fenice. Particularly known as a Mozart specialist, her core repertoire also includes Monteverdi, Handel and Britten, who indeed personally influenced and guided her when she was 16, and to whose music she constantly returns. She has performed with all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, repeatedly at the BBC Proms as well as with orchestras in Europe, the US, the Far East and Australasia. She has appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festivals in both New York and London and is especially known for her experience in the choral repertoire. She regularly collaborates with the Mark Morris Dance Group,
Jane Glover’s has made many recordings; most recently she has released recordings of Haydn Masses, for Naxos. Her extensive broadcasting career includes the television series Orchestra and Mozart, and the radio series Opera House and Musical Dynasties, all for the BBC. Her book, Mozart’s Women, received great critical acclaim, and she is currently writing a book on Handel.
Last season she conducted new productions of Cosi fan tutte directed by John Cox and the world premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Kommilitonen, directed by its librettist David Pountney for the RAM, a new production of Don Giovanni in St Louis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Aspen and concerts for Music of the Baroque in Chicago and for the Huddersfield Choral Society. Future engagements include Armide at the Juilliard School, Lucio Silla in Bordeaux and her Metropolitan opera debut, and concerts in Madrid, Washington DC, San Francisco and the BBC Proms and London’s Southbank.
