Jane Glover

I hold Dame Jane Glover in genuinely high regard. To be both a working conductor and a serious musicologist is rare, and she did it as a woman at a time when the podium was almost entirely male. Her reputation as a Mozart interpreter is no accident: scholarship feeds the baton, and a conductor who truly understands the score brings a persuasiveness to the sound that instinct alone cannot. From a small Yorkshire town to St Hugh's College to a damehood, her long career is itself the award. I find that combination of intellect and nerve quietly thrilling.

Name (English)

Jane Glover

Name (Japanese)

ジェーン・グラヴァー

Reading

じぇーん・ぐらゔぁー

Born

May 13, 1949 (age 77)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Origin

Helmsley, United Kingdom

Occupation

conductor / musicologist / woman conductor / choir director / docent

University

St Hugh's College

Awards & achievements

• 2020 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award (Gamechanger)
• 1988 honorary doctorate

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC

Tags

• conductor
• musicologist
• woman conductor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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