| Biography | Margaret Faultless is an internationally renowned specialist in historical performance practice and performs music from Monteverdi to the present day. Since 1989 she has been a co-leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and often directs the orchestra in 18th-century programmes.
For over twelve years Margaret led the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman, notably participating in their ten-year project that saw the performance and recording of all of JS Bachs Cantatas. She is a leader of the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata series, and regularly directs the European Union Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Lisbon, the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra and Philharmonie Merck. Margaret has also appeared as a guest leader with the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2008 coached and led the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow with Vladimir Jurowski.
She is the artistic director of the ensemble Music for Awhile, was co-founder and artistic director of Devon Baroque for twelve years, a member of the London Haydn Quartet for a decade and now appears as a duo with pianist Adrian Partington, focusing in particular on the Sonatas of Beethoven and Brahms.
Margaret is in demand as a lecturer on performance practice: she frequently appears as a guest teacher and director in conservatories throughout Europe and is Director of Studies with the European Union Baroque Orchestra. She has recently been made an honorary fellow of Birmingham City University. A graduate of Clare College, Cambridge, Margaret co-founded the Cambridge University Collegium Musicum in 2007 and is now Director of Performance Studies at the Faculty of Music.
She was appointed Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in summer 2012. |