Fontmell Magna is the birthplace of the orchestral conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC.
Past principal conductors at the company have included André Cluytens, John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano, Louis Langrée, and Iván Fischer.
He gave frequent concerts, both as a soloist - with such conductors as Sir Andrew Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, the late Erich Kunzel and Arthur Fiedler, and with his innovative music ensemble, Camerata-Canada.
It has been led by several famous choirmasters, including Wilhelm Furtwangler, John Eliot Gardiner and Charles and Fritz Munch the sons of the founder of the choir.
In tribute to Bach, the term was also chosen by Sir John Eliot Gardiner as the name for his own record label after leaving Archiv Produktion, to continue and complete his Bach cantatas project.
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She also worked with various conductors, including Dominique Visse, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, John Eliot Gardiner, Christophe Rousset, and Gérard Lesne.
Musicians with whom Hicks collaborated on recordings were Christopher Hogwood, Paul McCreesh, Robert King, Trevor Pinnock, Emma Kirkby, John Eliot Gardiner, and Alan Curtis among many other distinguished baroque performers.
She has recorded extensively, for example as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music in 1994), with the choir of King's College, Cambridge conducted by Stephen Cleobury in Bach's St. John Passion, as Venus in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis with Philip Pickett, and in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
It owes its modern revival to the conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who gave a concert version of the piece (in which Trevor Pinnock played continuo) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 14 April 1974, for which he had prepared the orchestral material from the original manuscripts over the preceding year.
Schuldt-Jensen has also worked as choir master with conductors such as Simon Rattle, Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Herbert Blomstedt, Lothar Zagrosek, Riccardo Chailly, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Schreier and Marcello Viotti, and worked on performances with these conductors with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Freiburger Barockorchester and the National Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.