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Edward Gardner
ConductorEdward Gardner is Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic
Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will
relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 Edward will undertake
the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO&B), having
been their Artistic Advisor since February 2022.
During the 2023/24 season, Edward will conduct the London Philharmonic
in 10 concerts at the Royal Festival Hall and tour the orchestra in Asia and to
major European cities including Paris, Munich, Frankfurt and Hamburg, as well
as a mini-residency in Bruges. He will open the LPO season with Mahler Symphony
No. 2 'Resurrection’. Other
highlights in London feature his curation of ‘The Music in You’, a cross-arts
spring festival which celebrates artistic expression of all kinds. This opens
with HaydnThe Creation and closes with a dance influenced programme
featuring a reinvention of Szymanowski's ballet Harnasie in
collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor.
Edward will open the Bergen Philharmonic season with Mahler Symphony
No. 1 and season highlights include a mini-Rachmaninov festival and their
final German tour together. He completes his tenure as Chief Conductor at the
closing of the Bergen International Festival, conducting Mahler Symphony No.
8 'Symphony of a Thousand'. The orchestra will be joined by several choirs,
including the Edvard Grieg Kor of which Edward is the Principal Conductor.
After commencing his role of Artistic Advisor of the Norwegian National
Opera and Ballet in February 2022, last season saw Edward conduct a new
production of Verdi Un ballo in Maschera alongside concert performances
of Berlioz Damnation of Faust. This season Edward will conduct a triple bill of Schumann's song cycle Frauenliebe und–leben, Bartok
Bluebeard's Castle, and Zemlinsky A Florentine Tragedy. Future plans with the company include a Ring Cycle commencing in Spring
2026 and culminating in Autumn 2028.
In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons saw Edward debut with the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra,
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, New York Philharmonic,
Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Berlin, and Wiener Symphoniker; while returns included engagements with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Montreal Symphony,
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestra
del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding
collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was
Principal Guest Conductor from 2010-16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last
Night of the BBC Proms.
Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007-15),
Edward built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera where he
has conducted productions of Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don
Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he will return to the Royal Opera House
where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová
followed by Werther a season later.
During the 2021/22 season, Edward made his debut with Bayerische
Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes and returned in the
2022/23 season for a jump-in of Verdi Otello. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala,
Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris
and this season he will conduct a double bill of Bartok Bluebeard's Castle and
Poulenc La Voix Humaine at Teatro di San Carlo.
A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth
Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth
Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with the Juilliard
School of Music, and with the Royal Academy of Music who appointed him their
inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.
Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at Cambridge and the
Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of The Hallé and Music Director of
Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named
Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award
for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and receiving an OBE for Services
to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).
September
2023
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