Biography

Monteverdi Choir

Current as of August 2023

The Monteverdi Choir was founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1964 and will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2024. Over the course of the last few decades, it has established itself as one of the leading international vocal ensembles, enlivening choral music worldwide through its constant striving for new perspectives, immediacy and drama.

This month and next, the Choir appears in concert performances of Les Troyens at the Salzburg Festival, and in Versailles, Berlin and London. In April 2023 the Choir and the English Baroque Soloists made an acclaimed European tour performing Bach’s Mass in B minor. In October 2023 the two ensembles will tour North America performing this work alongside Handel’s oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. In May 2023 the Choir performed at the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla in London.

In recent seasons, the Choir’s appearances have included performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion (sung from memory) with the English Baroque Soloists, and Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust and Verdi’s Requiem with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.

In 2017 the Monteverdi Choir participated in the project Monteverdi 450, which consisted of performances of all Monteverdi’s surviving operas, and which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

Other past highlights have included the project Bach Cantata Pilgrimage 2000, which was recorded and released on the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra’s own record label, Soli Deo Gloria.

The Monteverdi Choir is under the patronage of HM King Charles III.

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Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner
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