"The invigorating fizz that Jane Glover has brought to Music of the Baroque since arriving as music director in 2002 shows little sign of abating."
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Acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover has been Music of the Baroque's music director since 2002. She made her professional début at the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her own edition of Cavalli's L'Eritrea. She joined Glyndebourne in 1979 and was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 until 1985. She was artistic director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991, and has also held principal conductorships of both the Huddersfield and the London Choral Societies.
Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the U.S., Far East and Australia. Highlights of her concert career include her major South Bank series "Mozart Explored," "Music of Two Decades: The 1780s and 1980s" and "Mozart to Strauss" with the London Mozart Players; her débuts in New York (with Jessye Norman and the Orchestra of St. Luke's) and Vienna (with Imogen Cooper and the Sinfonia Varsovia); her 1995 performances of Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms and in Normandy; and the many concerts where she has premiered new works. She made her Carnegie Hall début (with the Orchestra of St. Luke's) in 2003.
In demand on the international opera stage, Ms. Glover has appeared with numerous companies including English National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theatre St. Louis and Teatro La Fenice. Among other works, she has conducted all the major Mozart operas; numerous Handel operas including Giulio Cesare, Agrippina, Tamerlano, La Resurrezione, Theodora and Ariodante; the Monteverdi trilogy; and many other early operas. She has also conducted Fidelio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Albert Herring, Turn of the Screw, Don Pasquale, Cenerentola, The Secret Marriage, Hansel and Gretel, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigénie en Tauride.
In addition to her appearances with Music of the Baroque, Ms. Glover’s engagements this season include Mozart Dances with the Mark Morris Dance Group in London, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Don Giovanni at Chicago Opera Theater, The Marriage of Figaro at Michigan Opera, Magic Flute with Simon Callow at Holland Park Opera, Iphigenie en Tauride at Opera Oviedo, and King Arthur with the Mark Morris Dance Group at New York City Opera. Last season’s engagements included Cosi fan Tutte at the Berlin Staatsoper, King Arthur at English National Opera, and Il ritorno d’Ulisse with Chicago Opera Theater.
Jane Glover's many recordings feature a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies for ASV and arias with Felicity Lott, all with the London Mozart Players, plus other recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Britten and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and the BBC Singers. Her extensive broadcasting career includes the TV series "Orchestra and Mozart," and the radio series "Opera House" and "Musical Dynasties" (all for the BBC). Her most recent book, Mozart's Women, is published in the U.S. by HarperCollins.
Jane Glover studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where, after graduation, she did her D.Phil on seventeenth-century Venetian opera. She was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year's Honors.
