Edward Gardner
born in Gloucester, has been Artistic Advisor to the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo since 2022 and will become its Music Director in 2024. He has also been Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2021/22 season. He has held the same position with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015, with whom he has toured in Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival, among others. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was Music Director of English National Opera from 2006 to 2015. As an opera conductor, he has made several guest appearances at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Opéra national de Paris. He has appeared on the concert platform with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, he made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera with Peter Grimes.