Montgomery, Kenneth (1943- )

Irish conductor. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London and made his debut at Glyndebourne in 1967, with L'elisir d'amore. He was conductor at Sadler's Wells 1967-70 and at the Bournemouth Sinfonietta 1973-75, and music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera 1975-76. He gave Oberon at Wexford in 1972 and Figaro on his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in 1975. For Netherlands Opera, where he worked after 1972, he conducted Ariadne, Capriccio, and Hänsel and Gretel; for Opera Northern Ireland Tosca and Die Zauberflöte (1990); and at Vancouver Alcina (1991).