Richard Egarr

Richard Egarr trained as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, and as Organ Scholar at Clare College Cambridge. He is Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music since 2006 (when he succeeded Christopher Hogwood). Egarr complements this with a handful of other select period ensembles, including the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Portland Baroque, and Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco. He is increasingly sought-after by non-period chamber and symphony orchestras such as the Dallas Symphony and Rotterdam Philharmonic where he debuted in 10/11. He continues to work with Residentie Orchestra, Scottish Chamber, Berlin Konzerthausorchester (Mozart) and the Helsingborg Symphony (Sweden) for Bach/Stokowski. Since his appointment as Music Director, Egarr has established the AAM’s own chorus, and operas/oratorios lie at the heart of his repertoire; in 2010 he conducted Mozart’s opera La Finta Giardiniera in concert at the Barbican Centre and the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. He made his Glyndebourne debut in 2007 conducting a staged Matthew Passion. Richard Egarr has given many solo and concerto performances throughout Europe, Japan and the USA. In 2011 he toured the USA playing the Well-tempered Clavier and a Louis Couperin programme, following his CD releases on Harmonia Mundi of the same repertoire.