Ivor Bolton

Who is Ivor Bolton?

Ivor Bolton is an English conductor and harpsichordist. He studied at Clare College and was conducting scholar at the Royal College of Music. He later trained as a répétiteur at the National Opera Studio and was appointed conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford.

Bolton made his operatic debut in 1986 conducting The Rake's Progress for Opera 80.

Bolton was Assistant Chorus Master and staff conductor from 1982-84 for Glyndebourne, later becoming music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1992 to 1997, and principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 1994 to 1996. He has also held leadership positions with the St James's Baroque Players in London and the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. He has enjoyed an extensive relationship with the Munich State Opera and has conducted seventeen new productions for the company, in the course of which he was awarded the Bayerische Theaterpreis. He has also conducted regularly at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Vienna State Opera, the Netherlands Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Liceu Barcelona, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Opéra National de Paris.