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Mark Elder (Conductor)

Born: June 2, 1947 - Hexham, Northumberland, England

The English conductor, Mark Philip Elder, is the son of a dentist. As a youth he divulged talent both as a singer and instrumentalist, serving as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and as the first-chair bassoonist in the National Youth Orchestra.

He studied music at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he studied music and was a choral scholar. He was later mentored by renowned British conductor and musicologist Edward Downes.

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Elder worked briefly in minor capacities at Glyndeboune and Covent Garden before gaining experience conducting Verdi operas as a regular conductor at the Sydney Opera House, Australia from 1972 to 1974. He returned to England in 1974.

Elder has achieved wide acclaim in the realm of opera, but has also generally devoted an equal share of his career to orchestral work.

He perhaps made his strongest impression at the English National Opera (ENO), where he began conducting