John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943, Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England) is an English conductor, most famous for his interpretations of baroque music on period instruments. He formed the The Monteverdi Choir in 1964 and 4 years later The Monteverdi Orchestra, with whose members he founded The English Baroque Soloists in 1978. In 1989, he formed a new period instrument orchestra to perform classical and romantic music, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique, playing Hector Berlioz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms among others. Married to violinist Elizabeth Wilcock from 1981 until their divorce in 1997. In 2001, he married Isabella De Sabata.
