Jane Glover

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Jane Glover (born 13 May 1949) is a British-born conductor who is Music Director of the Chicago's Music of the Baroque. Having read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford, she went on to complete a DPhil on 17th century Venetian Opera. She holds a number of honorary degrees from several universities, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. In December 2005, she conducted Handel's Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Mozart's Women
4 External link

[edit] Early life

Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meet Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears aged only 16. She later described the meeting - "I was beside myself with the prospect of hearing them perform. On the afternoon of the concert, the doorbell rang at the headmasters house, and I went to answer it. There on the step, looking for all the world as they did on one of my record sleeves, distinguished, elegant and with the kindliest of eyes, were Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten my hero."

[edit] Career

She made her professional debut at the Wexfod Festival in 1975 and joined Glyndebourne in 1979. During the 1980s, Glover regularly broadcast on BBC Television.

Glover was the Music Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991 and has fulfilled the same role at the Music of the Baroque in Chicago since 2002.

[edit] Mozart's Women

In September 2005 Macmillan published 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. An earlier book of Glover's (1978) was a biography of Francesco Cavalli, and included material derived from her doctoral thesis.