John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner ( born April 20, 1943 in Fontmell, Dorset, England ) is a British conductor and choir.
Life and work
At the age of 15 years collected Gardiner first experience conducting. As a young student at Cambridge University, he led the Oxford and Cambridge Singers on a tour through the Middle East before the Monteverdi Choir founded in 1964. During his studies, he studied with Thurston Dart in London and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After the Monteverdi Choir he called in 1968 the Monteverdi Orchestra in life.
His London operatic debut in 1969 with Gardiner of The Magic Flute at the English National Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden he gave in 1973 with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride a guest role. In his first appearance in the U.S. in 1979, he led the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
His main successes celebrated John Eliot Gardiner by his outstanding performances and recordings of early music. Around 1978 came the English Baroque Soloists, formed from members of the Monteverdi Orchestra, for the first time at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with a performance of Handel's Acis and Galatea with historical instruments on.
From 1980 to 1983, Gardiner chief conductor of the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. 1983 to 1988 he trained as Music Director of the Opéra National de Lyon, in turn, a new orchestra, which is now one of the best in France. From 1981 to 1990 he was artistic director of the International Handel Festival Göttingen and from 1991 to 1994 chief conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg. As a guest Gardiner et al conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Vienna Philharmonic.
On the occasion of the 25th founding anniversary of the Monteverdi Choir Gardiner undertook a world tour in 1989 with performances of Monteverdi 's Vespers of 1610, which was recorded at the same time as film, video and CD production. The French newspaper Le Monde praised the achievements of this vocal ensembles with the words: "If there were a Nobel Prize for choral singing, then it would get the Monteverdi Choir. "
In 1990 Gardiner founded another orchestra for historical instruments to authentically perform classical and romantic music, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. In the same year he led the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in their debut at the Salzburg Festival, where he is a regular guest since then.
On February 13, 2014 Gardiner took over the office of President of the Foundation Bach-Archiv Leipzig.
Outstanding shooting under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner originated first in his time at PolyGram on the labels German Grammophon, Philips and Decca Records. In 2004 he founded his own record label, Soli Deo Gloria, the only published photos of Gardiner's own ensembles, including all church cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach in live recordings from 2000, the 250th year of death of the composer.
Great visibility also have the recordings of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach ( St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Mass in B Minor, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat ) as well as his recordings of works by Hector Berlioz, George Frideric Handel and the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but also the recordings of the nine symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven with the Orchestre et romantique Révolutionaire achieved.
In his spare time, John Eliot Gardiner leads an organic farm in North Dorset.
Awards
The plate recordings earned him numerous awards, including the Artist of the Year 1994 ( Gramophone Award ), Conductor of the Year 1995 ( Echo Klassik ) and Best Conductor 1995 ( Cannes Classical Award). The Prize of the German Record Critics' Award was awarded to him in 1994 as a classical artist of the year. In 1995, he was the first conductor, who received the Dietrich Buxtehude price.
John Eliot Gardiner in 1987 honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon in 1988 and Officier dans l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 1990 Commander of the British Empire. He was made an honorary fellow of King 's College London and the Royal Academy of Music in 1992.
In 1998, was defeated at the June Birthday Honours Knight Bachelor John Eliot Gardiner of Queen Elizabeth II.
The city of Zwickau - Birthplace of Robert Schumann - awarded him in 2001 for his pioneering Schumann interpretations ( orchestral works, Paradise and the Peri, etc.) donated the 1964 Robert Schumann Prize. In May 2005, he was awarded the Bach Medal for his lifetime achievement during the Bach Festival in Leipzig.
On 29 November 2005, John Eliot Gardiner by the German Ambassador in London, Thomas Matussek, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class presented.
2005 Gardiner was awarded the international Léonie Sonning Music Prize.