Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner is one of the most versatile conductors of our time. Acknowledged as a key figure in the early music revival, he is the founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Alongside the activities with his own ensembles, John Eliot Gardiner appears regularly as the guest conductor with the most prestigious European symphony orchestras, including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras and the London Symphony Orchestra.

The extent of John Eliot Gardiner’s repertoire is illustrated in over 250 recordings made for major European record companies (principally Deutsche Grammophon and Philips Classics), which have received numerous international awards. He received his knighthood in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours List.