Glover, Jane 1949-

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Glover, Jane 1949-
(Jane Allison Glover)

PERSONAL:

Born May 13, 1949, in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; daughter of Robert Finlay Glover and Jean Muir. Education: St. Hugh's College, Oxford, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1978. Hobbies and other interests: Times crossword puzzles, theater, walking, skiing.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England. Agent—c/o Peter Bloor, Askonas Holt Ltd., Lonsdale Chambers, 27 Chancery Ln., London WC2A 1PF, England.

CAREER:

St. Hugh's College, Oxford, England, junior research fellow, 1973-75, lecturer in music, 1976-84, senior research fellow 1982-91; St. Anne's College, Oxford, lecturer in music, 1976-80; Pembroke College, Oxford, England, lecturer in music, 1979-84; Glyndebourne Touring Opera, music director, 1982-85; London Choral Society, principal conductor, 1983—; London Mozart Players, artistic director, 1984-91; Huddersfield Choral Society, principal conductor, 1989-96; Chicago's Music of the Baroque, music director, 2002—. Has served as conductor or guest conductor at the Wexford Festival, Covent Garden, English National Opera in London, and the London Promenade Concerts. Has conducted performances for several music recordings, including Mozart's Concerto for Bassoon in B, William Walton's Façade, and Richard Strauss's Violin Concerto.

MEMBER:

Royal Society of Authors, Royal College of Music (fellow), Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

AWARDS, HONORS:

General Director Council Award for Outstanding Achievement, New York City Opera, 2001; named Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 2003. D.Mus. from the University of Exeter, 1986, Council for National Academy Awards, 1991, University of London, 1992, City University, 1994, and University of Glasgow, 1997; D.Litt. from Loughborough University of Technology, 1988, and University of Bradford, 1992; honorary doctorate, Open University, 1988.

WRITINGS:

Cavalli, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1978. Mozart's Women: The Man, the Music, and the Loves of His Life, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Conductor and musicologist Jane Glover was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, and educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. She made her debut as a conductor at the 1975 Wexford Festival, where she presented her own version of Cavalli's L'Eritrea. In 1981, she became music director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, followed by a position as artistic director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991. She has since been the principal conductor of both the Huddersfield and the London Choral Societies, and in 2002 became music director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque. Glover has served as guest conductor for every major symphony and chamber orchestra in Great Britain, as well as for numerous orchestras and operas around the world.

Glover grew up with a particular affinity for the music of Mozart, but even as a child was also fascinated by the composer's sister, Maria Anna Nannerl, who toured with her brother and was also considered a musical prodigy. This interest ultimately spawned Glover's desire to write a book about the women in Mozart's life. Mozart's Women: The Man, the Music, and the Loves of His Life begins with the earliest female influences on the composer—his mother, sister, and cousin. It then examines his relationships with the Weber sisters, one of whom he eventually married, the female singers and actresses who performed his works, and explains what happened to those he left behind after his early death. Alan Hirsch remarked in Booklist that "Glover's book accounts for what made Mozart tick as do few others." A contributor for Kirkus Reviews praised the work, saying that "Glover writes fluently and well of Amadeus's many beloveds, as well as of his tangled life in general."