Jane Glover
Conductor
British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year's Honours, has been Music of the Baroque's music director since 2002, and has just begun her tenure as principal guest conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony.
This season Glover celebrates her 50th anniversary in the profession: her debut was at the Wexford Festival in 1975, when she conducted 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. From 2009 until 2016 she was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is now the Felix Mendelssohn Visiting Professor. She was recently Visiting Professor of Opera at the University of Oxford, her alma mater.
Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia. In recent seasons she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco, Houston, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Toronto symphony orchestras, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain, Bamberg Symphony, Bremen Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Salzburg Camerata. She has worked with the period-instrument orchestras Philharmonia Baroque and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has also made frequent appearances at the BBC Proms.
In demand on the international opera stage, Glover has appeared with numerous companies including the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera, Covent Garden; English National Opera; Glyndebourne; Berlin Staatsoper; Glimmerglass Opera; New York City Opera; Opéra National de Bordeaux; Opera Australia; Chicago Opera Theater; Opera National du Rhin; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Teatro Real, Madrid; Royal Danish Opera; Teatro La Fenice; and Detroit Opera. A Mozart specialist, she has conducted all the Mozart operas all over the world regularly since she first performed them at Glyndebourne in the 1980s, and her core operatic repertoire also includes Monteverdi, Handel and Britten. Highlights of recent seasons include The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera; Alcina with Washington Opera; L'elisir d'amore, The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni for Houston Grand Opera; Medea for Opera Omaha; Così fan tutte for Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Turn of the Screw, Jephtha and Lucio Silla in Bordeaux; The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni at the Aspen Music Festival; Gluck's Armide and Iphigénie en Aulide with Met Young Artists and Juilliard; Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) in Lisbon; Albert Herring and Leonora (Paer) with Chicago Opera Theater; and Xerxes with Detroit Opera. The many operas she conducted while Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music include Eugene Onegin, The Rake's Progress, The Marriage of Figaro, L'incoronazione di Poppea and the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Kommilitonen!
Future engagements include debuts with the Detroit Symphony, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century; and her returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony.
Jane Glover's discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and various recordings with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Trinity Church (Wall Street) and BBC Singers. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Mozart's Women, Handel in London and Mozart in Italy. She holds a personal professorship at the University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, and the holder of several honorary degrees. In 2020, she was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's Gamechanger Award for her work in breaking new ground for other female conductors. In 2025 she received the Musicians Club of Women 150th Anniversary Founders Award.
