Richard Egarr

He was an organ scholar of Clare College, Cambridge and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Study with Gustav Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historically informed performance.

Egarr is widely known as a specialist in the baroque repertoire,[1] but has performed repertoire over a wide historical era, from fifteenth-century organ intabulations to Dussek and Chopin on early pianos, to Berg and Maxwell Davies on modern piano.

[7] Egarr made his Glyndebourne debut in 2007 with a staged version of Bach's St Matthew Passion.

[10] In June 2023, the PBO announced that Egarr is to conclude his tenure as its music director at the close of the 2023-2024 season.