Ledger, Philip (1937– )

English conductor, keyboard player, and editor. He studied at Cambridge and has held posts there and at the University of East Anglia and been active at the Aldeburgh Festival since 1968. He has worked as an accompanist to leading singers and as a conductor, leading Purcell's King Arthur with the English Opera Group in Britain and abroad. His recordings of Bach and Handel have a sure sense of period style. He was made principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1982.