Dame Jane Alison GloverDBE (born 13 May 1949) is a Britishconductor andmusicologist.

Born inHelmsley, Glover attendedHaberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover,MA (TCD), washeadmaster ofMonmouth School and it was through this connection that she was able to meetBenjamin Britten andPeter 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 headmaster's 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."

After reading Music as an undergraduate atSt Hugh's College, Oxford, she went on to complete aDPhil on 17th-centuryVenetian Opera. Dr Glover has published a 1978 biography ofFrancesco Cavalli, and included material derived from her doctoralthesis.

In 1990, after a sizeable donation, the Glover Music School^[1] was opened atMonmouth School by Jane Glover, in memory of her father. Her brother, Richard Glover, served asMasterHaberdasher (2015–16).

Glover first conducted at Oxford as a student, in a production ofAthalia, and went on to conduct the first performance in modern times of Cavalli'sRosinda for the Oxford University Opera Club in October 1973.^[2]

She made her professional debut at theWexford Festival in 1975 with the first modern performance ofEritrea^[3] and joined Glyndebourne in 1979. She was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. She has been both principal conductor and principal guest conductor of the Huddersfield Choral Society and continues to work with the choir on a semi-regular basis.^[4] She conducted the world premiere ofIl Giardino byStephen Oliver at the Batignano Festival in 1977.^[3]

During the 1980s, Glover regularly broadcast onBBC Television including hosting the television seriesOrchestra with Jane Glover in 1983 andMozart – His Life with Music in 1985.

Glover was the Music Director of theLondon Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991. Glover was aBBC governor from 1990 to 1995.^[5] She conducted theKen Russell production ofPrincess Ida forENO at theColiseum Theatre in 1992.^[6] Since 2002, she has been Music Director of the Chicago ensembleMusic of the Baroque.

Glover is aFellow of theRoyal College of Music and was the artistic director of opera at theRoyal Academy of Music between 2009 and 2016. On 18 March 2011, she conducted the world première ofSir Peter Maxwell Davies's operaKommilitonen! at the Academy.^[7]

In December 2013, she became the third woman ever to conduct at theMetropolitan Opera of New York, leading Mozart'sThe Magic Flute in the production ofJulie Taymor.^[8] She has been a regular collaborator with choreographerMark Morris.

In January 2023, Glover first guest-conducted theFort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO). In February 2024, the FWSO announced the appointment of Glover as its next principal guest conductor, the first female conductor ever named to the post, effective 1 August 2025.^[9]

Glover was appointed aCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2003 New Year Honours and aDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the2021 New Year Honours for services to music.^[10]

In September 2005,Macmillan published Glover's bookMozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. The book investigates the extent to which the women surrounding Mozart – his mother, sister, wife and his wife's sisters – influenced his development as a composer. In 2018, herHandel in London: The Making of a Genius, was published, which charts the composer's work as "immigrant musical genius, composer, performer and impresario", placed in the social and political context of London of the time.^[11]

Her recordings include Cavalli (La Calisto - extracts), Handel (Messiah;Water Music suites 1-3), Haydn (Symphonies 80, 87, 89, 101, 102, 103, 104; 'Harmoniemesse' and 'Schöpfungsmesse', Mozart (Symphonies 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41; Divertimenti K. 136-K. 138 & Serenade K. 525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik";Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments K361;Requiem K.626), Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto Op. 64; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" incidental music), Britten (Les Illuminations; Nocturne; Sinfonietta).

• —— (September 2005).Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music. Macmillan.ISBN 978-0330418584.
• Handel in London: The Making of a Genius. Pan Macmillan, 2018.ISBN 978-1-5098-8206-9.
• Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera, Picador, 2024.ISBN 978-1-5290-5986-1

• Official website of Dame Jane Glover
• Royal Academy of Music page on Dame Jane Glover
• Music of the Baroque – biography on Jane Glover

• Jane Glover interview, September 25, 2000

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