Edward Gardner
Award Winner
1974 –
Who is Edward Gardner?
Edward Gardner OBE is a British conductor.
Gardner was born in Gloucester, and sang as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral. As a youth, he played piano, clarinet and organ. He attended the King's School, Gloucester and Eton College. At the University of Cambridge, he continued as a music student, and was a choral scholar in King's College Choir. He had begun choral conducting at Eton, and continued conducting at Cambridge. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers included Colin Metters. He graduated from the RAM in 2000.
From 1997 until 2002, Gardner was Musical Director of Wokingham Choral Society, a post previously held by Graeme Jenkins, Paul Daniel, and Stephen Layton. In 1999, whilst still a student at the Royal Academy of Music, Gardner became a repetiteur at the Salzburg Festival at the invitation of Michael Gielen, when another repetiteur had become ill. Gardner subsequently served as an assistant conductor to Mark Elder at The Hallé Orchestra for 3 years. In 2003, Gardner was named music director of Glyndebourne on Tour and formally took up the post in 2004. He relinquished this post in 2007.
In 2005, Gardner was a winner of the Young Artist prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society. In March 2006, he was appointed music director of English National Opera. He formally took up the post in May 2007, with an initial contract of 3 years. Although there had not been any formal press announcements of Gardner extending his ENO contract, he publicly stated in 2011 his plans to work with ENO until at least 2015. In January 2014, ENO announced the scheduled conclusion of Gardner's tenure as music director in 2015.
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1974
Gloucester - Spouses
- Alison Balsom
(2009 - 2011)
- Alison Balsom
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Eton College
- Royal Academy of Music
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on July 23, 2013
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