Jane Glover

British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours, has been Music of the Baroque’s music director since 2002 and is principal guest conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she served as music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera (1981–85), artistic director of the London Mozart Players (1984–91), and director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music (2009–16).

Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. In recent seasons she has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Salzburg Camerata. She has also worked with period-instrument orchestras, including Philharmonia Baroque and the Handel & Haydn Society, and made frequent appearances at the BBC Proms.

In demand on the international opera stage, Glover has appeared with numerous companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Berlin Staatsoper, Opera National de Bordeaux, Opera Australia, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Royal Danish Opera, among many others. A Mozart specialist, she has regularly conducted Mozart’s operas all over the world since she first performed them at Glyndebourne in the 1980s.

Alongside her concerts with Music of the Baroque and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Glover’s engagements this season include a production of Britten’s Curlew River in Chicago and returns to Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Minnesota, and Kansas City.

Glover’s discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and various recordings with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Trinity Church Wall Street, and the BBC Singers. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Mozart’s Women, Handel in London, and Mozart in Italy. She holds a personal professorship at the University of London, is a fellow of the Royal College of Music, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music, and the holder of several honorary degrees. In 2020, Glover was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gamechanger Award, recognizing her work in breaking new ground for other female conductors.