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From opera pit to podium of the CBSO; Edward Gardner, the young music director of English National Opera, is looking foward to conducting Mahler with the CBSO next week, writes Christopher Morley.(News)(Opera review)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20071115
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Like many other conductors - Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons among them - Edward Gardner owes part of his glittering success to having been in the right place at the right time.

In Gardner's case this occurred at the Aldeburgh Festival in the summer of 2005, when the BBC Symphony Orchestra suddenly found itself without a conductor for an important concert, and sent for him.

"Yes, symphonically that was a big thing for me, for sure, to be with a big British symphony orchestra in a big British festival, that was great," he remembers. "I'd done ...

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