Jane Glover - Wednesday, October 4 at 11:00 a.m.Acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover has earned rave reviews for her fresh, honest interpretations and thought provoking programs. Since 2002, Glover has been music director of Music of the Baroque, the Midwest’s leading professional chorus and orchestra specializing in eighteenth-century music. The ensemble presents sixteen performances of seven different concert programs in a season running from September to May.
Since her professional début at the Wexford Festival in 1975, Glover has been music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 until 1985, artistic director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991, and has also held principal conductorships of both the Huddersfield and the London Choral Societies.
She has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the U.S., Far East and Australia. In demand on the international opera stage, Ms. Glover has appeared with numerous companies including our own Chicago Opera Theater.
In addition to her appearances with Music of the Baroque, Ms. Glover's engagements this season include Cosi fan tutte with the Berlin Staatsoper, Purcell's King Arthur with the Mark Morris Dance Group at English National Opera and the University of California/Berkeley, Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria with Chicago Opera Theater and concerts with the London Mozart Players.
Carlos Kalmar - Wednesday, October 11 at 11:00 a.m.Carlos Kalmar recently celebrated his seventh season as Principal Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival. Since 2003, Mr. Kalmar has also been Music Director of the acclaimed Oregon Symphony Orchestra. He has previously served as Music Director of Vienna’s Tonkunstlerorchester, the Hamburg Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany.
Carlos Kalmar’s recent recordings with the Grant Park Orchestra include the GRAMMY® nominated “Robert Kurka: Symphonic Works” (2004) and “American Works for Organ and Orchestra” (2003), both on Chicago’s Cedille Records label. This past spring, Cedille released two new Grant Park Orchestra recordings with Carlos Kalmar: “American Orchestral Works” and “Portraits”, featuring violinist Jennifer Koh in works by Szymanowski, Martini and Bartok.
International critics have called him "skillfully guiding and buoyant" (Chicago Tribune); "gutsy and precise" (Cincinnati Post); "graceful and intensely propulsive" (Portland Oregonian); "athletically vigorous" (Indianapolis Star); "crystal clear and transparent"; "stylistic feeling and musical fire" (Opernglas); "positively liberated" with "grit and propulsion" (New York Post).
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