Artists biographies
Ivor Bolton

Ivor Bolton became Chief Conductor of the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg in 2004. He was Music Director of English Touring Opera in 1991/92, Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1992-1997, Chief Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 1994-1996, and was the founding music director of the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music and the St James’s Baroque Players in London.

Since his debut in 1994 Ivor Bolton has developed a close relationship with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich where he has conducted many new productions, including a sequence of Monteverdi and Handel operas. He was presented with the prestigious Bayerische Theaterpreis by the Prime Minister of Bavaria in November 1998.

Ivor Bolton made his Covent Garden debut in 1995, and has enjoyed a long association with Glyndebourne. Other UK operatic engagements have taken him to English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Opera North. In 2000 he made his Salzburg Festival debut with Gluck’s “Iphigenie en Tauride” and has returned each year since then. Elsewhere in Europe he appears regularly at the Maggio Musicale in Florence and in other major houses including Paris, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Dresden, Leipzig and Madrid. Operatic engagements outside Europe have included San Francisco, Sydney, and Buenos Aires.

Ivor Bolton has worked with many of the UK’s principal symphony orchestras, as well as with leading orchestras throughout the world, where concert engagements in recent seasons have included Vienna, Salzburg Festival, New York, Boston, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Paris, Florence, Milan, Rotterdam, WDR Cologne, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecelia Rome, Handel’s “Athalia” with Concerto Köln in New York, Paris and London and the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra.

His many recordings with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra include Bruckner Symphonies Nos 3, 5, 7 and 9, Berlioz’s “L’enfance du Christ”, Haydn’s “Creation” and “The Seasons”, as well as a wide repertoire of Mozart.