Biography
Edward Gardner is Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 Edward will undertake the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO&B), commencing the role of Artistic Advisor in February 2022.
During the 2022/23 season, Edward will lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra in celebrating their 90th anniversary with music written especially for the LPO including Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music and Tippett A Child of Our Time where they will be joined by the London Adventist Chorale. He will open the season with Schoenberg Gurrelieder and further highlights include works by Stravinsky, Elgar, Berlioz, Mahler and Janáček. Edward will premiere works by Mark Simpson, LPO’s Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean, Vijay Iyer and Agata Zubel. Edward and the LPO will tour within the UK and Benelux as well as undertaking an extensive tour of Germany.
Edward will open the Bergen Philharmonic season with Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony No. 3 and further symphonic highlights include works by Stravinsky, Brahms and Nielsen. Choral projects include Mahler Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ and a staged performance of Wagner Parsifal where the BPO will be joined by the Edvard Grieg, Bergen Philharmonic and Collegium Musicums Choir. Following recent tours to Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the orchestra look forward to touring projects in Germany and Belgium.
In demand as a guest conductor, Edward will return to the Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras and conduct Staatskapelle Berlin in their Sommerkonzert. The previous two seasons saw Edward debut with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Wiener Symphoniker; while returns included engagements with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Montreal Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. He also continued his longstanding collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010-16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms.
Following the announcement of Edward’s appointment at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, the 2022/23 season will see him conduct a new production of Verdi Un ballo in Maschera alongside two concert performances of Berlioz Damnation of Faust. He will also conduct the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in a programme of Dvořák and Rachmaninov.
Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007-15), Edward has an ongoing relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera where he has conducted productions of Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he has future plans with the Royal Opera House where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová and returned for Werther the following season. During the 2021/22 season, Edward made his debut with Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.
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