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Sir john Thomas Stearns Eliot Gardiner ( born 20 April 1943 ) is an English language
conductor , particularly known for his performances of the piece of work of Johann
Sebastian Johann Sebastian Bach , especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000 ,
performing Bach 's Christian church cantata in liturgical order in churches all over EC , and
New York City , with the Monteverdi consort , and recording them at the locations .== Life
and calling == Born in Fontmell Magna , Dorset , son of Rolf Samuel Rawson Gardiner and
Marabel Hodgkin , Samuel Rawson Gardiner 's betimes musical theater experience came
largely through singing with his family and in a topical anaesthetic church consort .As a
shaver he grew up with the famous Haussmann portraiture of J. S. Bach , which had been
lent to his parents for safe keeping during the Second World War .A self-taught player who
also played the fiddle , he began to study conducting at the age of 15 .He was educated at
Bryanston schooltime , then studied history at King 's College , Cambridge , where his tutor
was the mixer anthropologist Edmund Leach .While an undergraduate at Cambridge he
launched his conducting career with a performance of Monteverdi 's Vespro della Beata
Vergine in King 's College Chapel on 5 March 1964 .This either featured or led to the
substructure of the Monteverdi consort , with which he made his London conducting
introduction at the Wigmore mansion house in 1966 .Whilst at Cambridge , he conducted
the Oxford and Cambridge University vocalizer on a concert turn of the Middle E .After
graduating in story , Gardiner continued his musical subject at king 's College London under
Thurston dart and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger , whose euphony had been a very early
influence.Returning to England , Gardiner joined the BBC Northern Orchestra as an prentice
conductor .In 1968 he founded the Claudio Monteverdi Orchestra .Upon changing from
modern pawn to period instruments in 1977 , the orchestra changed its name to the English
Baroque Soloists in 1978 .In 1969 Gardiner made his opera debut with a performance of
Mozart 's The deception Flute at the English subject Opera .Four years later , in 1973 , he
made his first appearance at the Covent Garden conducting Gluck 's Iphigénie en
Tauride .The English people baroqueness Soloists made their Opera introduction with him
in the 1977 Innsbruck festival of Early music , performing Handel 's Acis and Galatea on
menstruum instruments .His American debut came in 1979 when he conducted the Dallas
symphonic music Orchestra .He then became the lead conductor of Canada 's complete
blood count Vancouver Orchestra from 1980 to 1983.After his period with the CBC
Vancouver Orchestra , Gardiner went to Anatole France .From 1983 to 1988 he was Music
Director of the Opéra National de Lyon .During his period with the Opéra he founded an
entirely Modern orchestra .During his fourth dimension with the Opéra National de Lyon
Gardiner was also Artistic theatre director of the Gö ttingen Handel Festival ( 1981 until
1990 ) .In 1989 the Monteverdi Choir had its 25th day of remembrance , touring the man
giving performance of Handel 's oratorio Israel in United Arab Republic and Johann
Sebastian Bach 's Magnificat among other whole caboodle .In 1990 , Gardiner formed a
newfangled period-instrument orchestra , the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique , to
execute music of the 19th century .From 1991 until 1995 he was principal conductor of the
northwards German radio symphony Orchestra .He founded the Monteverdi consort
( 1964 ) , the English Baroque Soloists ( 1978 ) and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Romantique ( 1989 ) .From the 1990s onwards he undertook more world term of
enlistment with his ensembles , including : A European circuit in 1993 with the Orchestre
Révolutionnaire et Romantique featured Hector Berlioz 's rediscovered Messe
solennelle .Beginning in Bremen , Germany the tour ended with a recorded performance in
Westminster cathedral , London 1993 .In 2000 , Gardiner set out on his Johann Sebastian
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage , playacting , over a 52-week period , all of Johann Sebastian Bach 's
sacred cantata in church building around Europe and the United States .In late 2004 ,
Gardiner toured France and Kingdom of Spain with the Monteverdi Choir performing pieces
from the Codex Calixtinus in cathedral and churches along the Camino de Santiago.Gardiner
has recorded over 250 album , nigh of which have been published by Deutsche
Grammophon and Philips classic , and by the Soli Deo Gloria recording label , which
specialises in recordings by Gardiner and by his ensembles .Gardiner is most famous for his
interpretations of Baroque music on catamenia instruments with the Monteverdi Choir and
the English Baroque Soloists , but his repertoire and discography are not limited to ahead of
time music .With the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Gardiner has performed a
wide of the mark range of serious music and Romantic music , including many works of
Berlioz and all of Beethoven 's symphony .A transcription of the tertiary philharmonic of the
latter was used in a dramatisation by the BBC of Beethoven 's writing of that symphonic
music .Gardiner has served as main director of the North German Radio Symphony
Orchestra and has appeared as node conductor with such John Major orchestras as the
Berlin Philharmonic , Hub of the Universe Symphony Orchestra , Chicago Symphony
Orchestra , Stephen Grover Cleveland Orchestra , John Griffith Chaney Symphony Orchestra ,
Philharmonia , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Vienna symphony orchestra .Samuel
Rawson Gardiner is also well known for his refusal to execute the music of Richard Wagner ;
in a 2008 interview for gramophone Gardiner said , ' I really abhor Wilhelm Richard
Wagner – everything he stands for – and I do n't even like his music very much . 'Gardiner
has been the study of various allegations of rudeness and bullying of performing artist and
colleagues.In late 2012 , citing health business organisation , he cancelled his planned
December 2013 tour of Australia with the Claudio Monteverdi Choir and the Australian
chamber Orchestra .In 2013 , Gardiner published the book Bach : Music in the rook of
nirvana .In 2014 he started a five-year term as chairperson of the Leipzig Bach Archive ,
being succeeded by Ton Koopman in that position in 2019 .One of the recognition during
Gardiner 's presidentship was the Archive 's collaboration to the Johann Sebastian Bach 333
box set with the complete recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach 's works , released in
2018.Gardiner conducted his Monteverdi Choir and English people Baroque period Soloists
in a pre-service concert at City of Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of Martin Luther
King Charles III .In August 2023 , Gardiner was reported to have struck the English sea bass
Isaac Merrit Singer William Thomas in front end of mold members after Thomas exited the
wrong incline of the level during a performance of lupus erythematosus Troyens at the
Berlioz Festival in lanthanum Cô te saint André , which resulted in a public backlash against
the director .On 24 August 2023 , Gardiner withdrew from all promote engagements for
2023 .The withdrawal was said to be for ' a period of thoughtfulness and , in consultation
with his aesculapian adviser ... focussing on his genial health while engaging in a course of
counselling ' .=== Honours and awards === Gardiner has received a variety of honours and
accolade , including : Honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon , 1987 Appointed
Commander of the social club of the British Empire ( CBE ) , 1990 New Year honours degree
, for services to medicine Honorary Fellow of King 's College , London and King 's College ,
Cambridge Honorary fellow member of Royal honorary society of medicine , 1992 Grammy ,
Charles Herbert Best Choral operation , 1994 Appointed knight Bachelor , 1998 Birthday
honours , for services to music Grammy , Best opera Recording , 1999 Bach ribbon , 2005
order of magnitude of deservingness of the Federal soldier Republic of Germany , 2005
doctorate Honoris Causa in Musicology at the University of Pavia in Cremona ( birthplace of
Claudio Monteverdi ) , 2006 Bach trophy of the Royal Academy of Music-Kohn Foundation ,
2008 Voted into the acoustic gramophone Hall of celebrity in 2012 Chevalier de la Légion
d'honneur , 2011 .