Sir John Eliot Gardiner Residency at Harvard

Conductor John Eliot Gardiner has been appointed the Harvard Music Department’s inaugural Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar, supported by the Christoph Wolff Fund for Music. Gardiner, an English conductor, early music expert, and Bach biographer, will participate in a series of talks and events in early February. Each of the three events is free and open to the public. There are no tickets required; seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Schedule

• Monday, February 2 at 3 pm in John Knowles Paine Hall
  J.E. Gardiner and pianist Vijay Iyer: A Conversation
• Saturday, February 7 at 4:30 pm in Memorial Church
  An informal concert with University Choir, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conducting.
• Sunday, February 8 at 8 pm in Sanders Theatre
  Discussion and open rehearsal of Mozart Piano Concerto K 491 in C Minor no. 24 with members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and pianist Robert Levin, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conducting (free parking at Broadway Garage for this event only).

Gardiner is one of the fathers of the period-instrument movement and the founder of some of its most iconic ensembles — the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He has recorded over 250 albums with these and other musical ensembles. Gardiner has served as chief conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as guest conductor with such major orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic.

For more information: www.music.fas.harvard.edu/news.html, email musicdpt@fas.harvard.edu or call 617-495-2791. Harvard University is located a short walk from the Harvard Square Red Line. Paine Hall, Memorial Church, and Sanders Theatre are all wheelchair accessible.