Jane Glover - Career

Career

Glover first conducted at Oxford, as a student, in a production of Athalia. She made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975 with the first modern performance of Eritrea and joined Glyndebourne in 1979. She was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. During the 1980s, Glover regularly broadcast on BBC Television. She has been both principal conductor and principal guest conductor of the Huddersfield Choral Society and continues to work with the choir on a semi-regular basis.. She conducted the world premiere of Il Giardino by Stephen Oliver at the Batignano Festival in 1977.

Glover was the Music Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991. Since 2002, she has been Music Director of the Chicago ensemble Music of the Baroque.

She holds a number of honorary degrees from several universities, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music and has been the artistic director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music since 2009. On 18 March 2011, she conducted the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Kommilitonen! at the Academy. She was created CBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours.

In September 2005, Macmillan published Glover's book Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. The book investigates the extent to which the women surrounding Mozart - his sister, his wife and his wife's sisters - influenced his development as a composer.