![]() ![]() Bach, which was in Gardiner's childhood home He was educated at Bryanston School, then studied history at King's College, Cambridge, where his tutor was the social anthropologist Edmund Leach. A self-taught musician who also played the violin, he began to study conducting at the age of 15. Bach, which had been lent to his parents for safe keeping during the Second World War. As a child he grew up with the celebrated Haussmann portrait of J. Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000, performing Bach's church cantatas in liturgical order in churches all over Europe, and New York City, with the Monteverdi Choir, and recording them at the locations.īorn in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, son of Rolf Gardiner and Marabel Hodgkin, Gardiner's early musical experience came largely through singing with his family and in a local church choir. ![]()
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