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Edward Gardner in September 2011. Edward Gardner OBE (born 22 November 1974) is an English conductor. While still studying at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1990s, he began his professional career as a choral conductor and repetiteur. Among other early posts, he was music director of Glyndebourne on Tour from 2004 to 2007.
Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2021. He is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 he will become Music Director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, having been their Artistic Advisor since 2022.
Jan 5, 2023 · This all fits with the fresh awareness among orchestras of the need to feature more music by composers from minority backgrounds. “We are being asked, quite rightly, to widen the diet of what we ...
- Richard Fairman
Sep 22, 2023 · First Person: conductor Edward Gardner on some of his questions and obsessions about Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony On music that can be 'universal and personal, fragile and grand, all at the same time'
Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic since October 2015, Edward Gardner has led the orchestra on multiple international tours, including performances in Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam and at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival.
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Edward Gardner is principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish after the 2023-24 season. In August 2024, he will become music director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, after assuming the role there of artistic director in February 2022.
The Southbank poster blurb for the London Philharmonic’s 2023-24 season-opener sold Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony as “a journey to the end of the world”, a description which, however enticingly apocalyptic, it isn’t. The clue of enduring faith and hope is in the title, a point not remotely lost on Edward Gardner.
