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| Alan Coady | Alan has taught classical guitar in East Lothian schools since 1982. A graduate in Music of the then Huddersfield Polytechnic, he has a soft spot for the contemporary. He also writes a Musical Blog, where the special interest is the intersection of music/language/science. |
| Alan Yu, alanayu.wordpress.com | The first concert Alan attended was Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. For 7 years he presented classical music programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong, partly to pay his way through university. He attends concerts whenever he can and believes there is no substitute for the thrill of live performances. He writes here.
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| Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres | Alexandra has a BA in Music from the University of Bristol and is now the Co-Director of Motion Picture Arts Ltd, working as a composer and painting in her spare time. She has a particular interest in minimalist composers. |
| Amanda Keil, thousandfoldecho.com | Amanda Keil is a native New Yorker who sings, teaches, writes about music and fundraises for the arts. Her broad musical interests have led her to perform music from ancient to modern times, and she is the founder of Musica Nuova, which stages Baroque songs in modern settings. She blogs here. |
| Andrew Crust | Andrew is an American émigré and graduate student in conducting at McGill University in Montréal. He is an avid concertgoer and freelance musician, recently founding The Gustav Klimt Ensemble, a local chamber group dedicated to providing quality free concerts to the public. His personal website is here. |
| Andrew H. King | Andrew is a musicologist, singer, conductor and critic based in Manchester. He is working on a doctoral thesis on the dramatic music of Sir Granville Bantock. Interests include 16th to 20th century English music, American music, opera, orchestral music, and choral music. He has been published in MUSO and Early Music. |
| Anthony Hart | Anthony Hart, born in the UK, now lives in Malta. He was presented papers for Società Italiana di Musicologia and the International Musicological Society. He a Licentiate of the London College of Music. He has had papers published in Early Music, Studi Musicali and Fonti Musicali Italiane. |
| Antonia Salib | Antonia has danced since the age of three, studying Ballet, Jazz and Hip Hop, among other styles. She has a keen interest in dance, and attends live performances whenever possible. |
| Billie Hylton | Billie is a keen music gap year student in London and currently has an internship at Bachtrack. She started piano lessons and singing at the age of four and is still doing both regularly fourteen years later. She sings in Ralph Allwood’s Rodolfus Choir and has a particular interest in Benjamin Britten. |
| Brenden Guy | British clarinetist Brenden Guy is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He currently resides in San Francisco as an active performer and arts publicist. |
| Caitlin Smith | Caitlin Smith is a Canadian composer living in Vienna. She studied jazz music and composition in Toronto and New York. She writes fully-composed music, as well as working with improvisers. She writes about contemporary music for I Care If You Listen. Her website is here. |
| Capriccio, capricciomusic.blogspot.com | Capriccio is a musician and writer living in London. He has a particular interest in opera and music of the twentieth century and enjoys exploring the obscurer recesses of the repertoire. He blogs here. |
| Carla Finesilver,
silverfin.wordpress.com | Carla studied Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, specialising in music of the 20th century. She plays the flute in a variety of amateur and semi-professional orchestras, chamber and operatic groups. A Londoner, she attends concerts and operas whenever possible. She blogs here. |
| Caroline Mathias | Caroline moved to London from Herefordshire to study dance theatre at Trinity Laban. She works as a dancer, teacher and stage manager, and is interested in theatre and performance, new writing, Shakespeare and surprises. |
| Chris Garlick | Chris Garlick is the co-founder of Signal Gallery in Hoxton. His first degree was in music, training as a classical composer. Chris has written about art frequently in Art of England magazine, Artist and Illustrator and for online blogs. |
| Cristina de Lucas | Cristina de Lucas has an interdisciplinary background in Law, English Philology and Ballet Studies. She is currently a PhD student at University of Roehampton, where she is passionately carrying out a research on four early narrative ballets by the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. She loves writing about dance and cinema, and contributes regularly to several publications in Spain and UK. |
| Dan Wang | Dan Wang is a musicologist, critic, and writer from Toronto. He holds a degree in piano performance and a Master's in musicology from the University of Western Ontario, and is currently completing a PhD in music history and theory at the University of Chicago. He works mostly on opera and film. |
| David Allen,
unpredictableinevitability.com | David is a PhD student at Columbia University, where he studies international history. A lapsed pianist and organist, he writes on concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, and blogs at Unpredictable Inevitability. |
| David Fay | David studied Music and French at Bristol University and subsequently completed an MA in Musicology. His specialism is 20th-century British choral music but his musical passions range from Alkaline Trio to Zadok the Priest.
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| David Karlin | David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link |
| David Larkin | David is a lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialising in nineteenth-century music. Educated at Dublin and Cambridge, he has published on Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner. He gives pre-concert talks for the Sydney Symphony, and sings with a number of chamber choirs. |
| David Smythe | David the farmer was drawn into music through choirs, orchestras, taking part in and directing 'serious' opera as a student. Passionate about live classical music, particularly chamber opera, unusual pieces and events and giving the next generation the tools to engage with the classical world. |
| Edward Whitney | Edward is a trombonist, writer and critic based in Bristol. He has an interest in small scale arts projects and assists with a number of grassroots music groups. He is a supporter of amateur music and participation at every level. |
| Emily Owen | A postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama specialising in early music, Emily Owen is a freelance soprano, singing with numerous ensembles. She deputises in churches around London and also manages the newly formed London Youth Choir. Her website is here |
| Erin Johnson | Erin Johnson is a postgraduate student at London Contemporary Dance School, and an avid writer. She holds two bachelor degrees from the University of Washington, one in journalism and the other in dance. |
| Evan Mitchell | Evan is a concert pianist based in Fort Worth, Texas. He studied in New York City in his teens, later earning BM and MM degrees at Indiana University. Aside from his love of music, Evan enjoys reading and following his favorite (and perennially disappointing) professional sports teams. |
| Frances Wilson | A keen concert-goer, Frances is a pianist, piano teacher and blogger on pianism, music, and culture at The Cross-Eyed Pianist.
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| Francesca Vella | Francesca is a PhD student at KCL, where she is researching Verdi reception in late nineteenth-century Milan. Besides being interested in cultural history and the history of Italian opera, she loves the classical and romantic piano and chamber music repertoire. |
| Gale Martin, operatoonity.com
| Based on the East Coast, Gale is an award-winning writer on the performing arts, books, literature and popular culture. She has just published Don Juan in Hankey and her Operatoonity blog can be found here. Her articles have appeared in numerous anthologies. |
| Gavin Dixon | Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor specialising. He writes for publications such as Gramophone, Classical Music and BBC Music Magazine. Gavin has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the “Alfred Schnittke Collected Works” edition. His website is here. |
| Hanna Weibye | Hanna is writing her PhD on eighteenth-century German history at Cambridge University. As well as reviewing dance in London, she produces, choreographs for and dances in ballet and contemporary shows in Cambridge. She teaches ballet for beginners, and Reformer Pilates. |
| Helen Fraser | Helen is an oboist at the Royal College of Music. She is delighted to be based in London and so able to take advantage of the wide variety of concerts the city provides. She also loves to teach and is keen to use this and every other opportunity to interest new people in classical music. |
| Ivan Talijancic | Ivan Talijancic is a director, choreographer, performer, writer, producer, visual designer, video- and film-maker. He is the co-founder and artistic co-director of WaxFactory, a New York-based international multidisciplinary performance group, with whom he toured worldwide. |
| James Potter | James Potter is a musician and writer based in Oxford, with a diverse portfolio of work including singing, playing, editing, transcribing, and writing about music. He enjoys a wide variety of styles, with an especial interest in early music performance, and blogs on the interactions of music and video games here. |
| Jane Shuttleworth | Jane lives in County Durham and sings in amateur chamber choir The Durham Singers. She has sung in choirs large and small for most of her life and also plays the recorder. She will happily listen to absolutely anything, but particularly enjoys Renaissance and Baroque music. |
| Jeffery S McMillan | Jeffery holds an MA in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University and spent ten years as an archivist for the Metropolitan Opera, where he helped develop the MetOpera Database. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about opera and jazz for publications including Opera News and ArtsAmerica. |
| Jeremy Morris | Former president of Keble College music society, tank commander and head of languages at Scotland's leading independent school, Jeremy lists violin, viola and motor cycles among his principal recreations. He is particularly interested in string chamber music of all periods. |
| Joseph Pfender | Joseph Pfender, a PhD student in musicology at NYU, has active research interests in electroacoustic and multimedia performance, perceptual agency, music and folklore, and theorizing orchestration. He has presented work in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, and in Athens, Greece. |
| Julia Savage | Julia works behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey as an Editorial and Administrative Assistant. Outside of her job, she sings with a variety of ensembles in London and further afield, and undertakes freelance editorial and writing projects – from concert programmes to tasting notes. |
| Katherine Dixson,
katherinedixson.co.uk | Katherine is an enthusiastic choral singer. Becoming chairman of her choir proved the catalyst for writing a memoir into which she crammed musical experiences galore, including her own belated musical education and encounters with professional musicians. Combining music, writing and travel is Katherine’s idea of bliss. Her website is here. |
| Katja Vaghi
| With a background in Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies, Zurich University) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer and choreographer and is currently a PhD student at University of Roehampton, Dance Department. |
| Katy S Austin | By day, Katy works in the bizarre world of TV News. At other times,
she sings soprano, plays violin, cycles about and listens to music.
She's a graduate of both Bristol and City Universities and has been
known to write libretti. |
| Katy Wright | Katy is in her final year reading Music at the University of Oxford, holding a particular interest in fin-de-siècle French music. Alongside writing for various publications, she blogs here. |
| Kay Kempin | Flying the flag for all things classical, jazz and a bit experimental, Kay is an amateur pianist and musical scribbler. Kay has her Masters in Culture, Policy and Management from City University, London, and currently works as a fundraiser for the performing arts in New York City. |
| Ken Ward, Editor, The Bruckner Journal | Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011. |
| Kirsty Morgan | Kirsty is a Glaswegian pianist, flautist, singer and musicologist. She is studying a music degree at the University of Aberdeen and has eight years ballet, tap and modern dance experience. She enjoys 19th-century music, in particular, Franz Schubert. Her website is here. |
| Kit Brown | Kit, originally hailing from Northampton, now lives in London where he trains at the London Contemporary Dance School. With experience and interest in both Ballet and Contemporary Dance his main interests lie on the contemporary side of the art form. |
| Kristen Huebner | Kristen moved to the Netherlands to study Baroque flute with Wilbert Hazelzet and is currently pursuing a Masters degree at the Koninklijk Conservatoire in The Hague. She is also the founding member of the Utrecht-based Deadbeat Society, a group dedicated to live performance in an open-stage atmosphere. |
| Leopold Tobisch | Leopold is currently working on his PhD, examining the music and politics in Paris during the events of May '68. A violinist, amateur photographer and overall musical omnivore, he is currently living in Paris in order to further his PhD research. |
| Lucy Armstrong | After growing up in Canada studying music, literature and philosophy
in the exuberant festival city of Montreal, Lucy A. Armstrong has
returned to the U.K. to explore the adventurous arts scene and
integrate herself into the wonderful world of classical music and
theatre. |
| Madelaine Jones | Madelaine is a pianist and writer studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. As a winner of the Gladys Puttick Improvisation Competition as part of a dance-piano duo, she has an active interest in cross-arts collaboration. Visit here to find out more. |
| Margaret Willis | Margaret studied ballet in Moscow for five years and later was a member of London City Ballet. A reviewer since 1978 for many newspapers and magazines including Dancing Times and Dance Magazine, Margaret is a specialist on Russian Ballet, and has written books on Russian Ballet and Carlos Acosta. |
| Matthew Lynch | Matthew is a graduate of St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he was active as both flautist and conductor. He is currently working as a music teacher in Germany and is a regular contributor to the British Flute Society Journal, Pan. |
| Matthew Richard Martinez | A professional conductor living in Costa Mesa, California, Matthew received Bachelor of Music and MFA degrees from University of California, Irvine. An avid sports fan, when he’s not conducting or listening to music, he can be found cheering for his hometown San Diego Padres. |
| Megan Beynon | Megan's passion for music began aged two, learning piano and then cello, choral singing and piano accompaniment. She teaches piano, cello and singing and has a particular interest in using technology to create new educational models. In her spare time she treads the boards with her local musical theatre group. |
| Melissa Hok Cee Wong | Melissa Hok Cee Wong is a PhD candidate in music at the University of Cambridge, where she writes about cover versions in popular music. She is also active as an organiser of community events exploring the relationship among music, technology, and urban space. |
| Nahoko Gotoh | Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.
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| Nancy Berman | Nancy Berman studied piano at York University and Musicology at McGill University, where she received her PhD in 2002. She currently teaches Music Literature in Montreal, Canada, and contributes articles and reviews on music and dance to various online sites. |
| Nathan Waring | Nathan is Director of Music at Gresham's Prep School, Holt. Aside from being a busy pianist and conductor, his principle interest lies in researching the less familiar musical output of 20th-century British composers such as Britten, Hales and Berkeley. |
| Nicholas Reed | British percussionist Nicholas Reed studied at the Royal College of Music, London and the Paris Conservatoire. A Royal Philharmonic Society award enabled him to complete his studies in Freiburg, Germany where he now resides. Specialising in the performance of contemporary music he has performed extensively around the world. |
| Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade | Ninfea is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, and is now completing an MMus degree at the Royal Academy of Music. She works as both a cellist and a composer and is committed to the performance of new works. |
| Oliver Brett | Oliver Brett is a professional organist, pianist, teacher and choral conductor. He held positions at King's College Cambridge, Westminster Cathedral and Durham Cathedral, and is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Mary's RC Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. He loves classical music of all genres. |
| Paul Kilbey
| Paul is Reviews Editor at Bachtrack and One Stop Arts. He has written on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars and Huffington Post UK. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and is particularly passionate about contemporary music of all types. His website is here. |
| Raisa Massuda, mandolinvision.blogspot.com | A firm believer in the importance of music at any age, Raisa teaches Opera Appreciation Seminars in a Senior Center in Baltimore, MD. She has launched a Live Opera for Seniors series, allowing her low-income students to study and attend free. Raisa is the author of a music and opera blog called Mandolin Vision. |
| Rebecca Lentjes | Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en. |
| Renee Barrick | Renee lives in Philadelphia and was in charge of concert programming
for the historical musical instruments collection at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City for many years. She is also an organist
and choral conductor, and loves great music of all kinds. |
| Renée Reitsma, ypgtcm.blogspot.com | Renée lives in Colchester and is a PhD student in philosophy. She loves all sorts of classical and non-classical music but has a particular love for Dmitri Shostakovich and Esa-Pekka Salonen. You can read her blog here. |
| Richard Wilcocks | Richard Wilcocks has worked as a journalist, as a teacher and for the British Council. He sings bass with Leeds Festival Chorus. |
| Robert Markow | Formerly a horn player in the Montreal Symphony, Robert Markow
now writes programme notes for that orchestra and for many other
musical organizations. He taught at
Montreal’s McGill University for many years, has led music tours
to several countries, and has written for numerous leading
classical music journals. |
| Rohan Shotton | Rohan is a conductor, percussionist and pianist at the University of St Andrews, where he studies Medicine. He has performed a wide variety of music but particularly enjoys music of the late Romantic period. |
| Rutger Muller
| A masters student in music technology from Amsterdam, Rutger searched for peculiarly beautiful sounds in experimental electronic music, and later learned to appreciate the acoustic sounds of contemporary classic music. He's always on the look-out for new music that can instantly captivate him. |
| Sam Wigglesworth | Sam studied music at King’s College London, briefly taking clarinet lessons with Mark van de Wiel. He grew up in Wakefield, Yorkshire, where a series of revelatory experiences at the nearby Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival cemented his passion for new music. |
| Sarah Brown | Sarah Brown is a violinist and Masters student at the University of Toronto studying Music Education. As an orchestral and chamber musician she has performed across Canada, Europe, South America, and the USA. |
| Sarah Reid | Sarah studied Music at Cambridge University, graduating in 2010 and now works for Rhinegold Publishing coordinating their music directories and listings supplements. Sarah is a regular concert- and theatre-goer and appreciates most music – with the exception of heavy metal and Wagner. |
| Simon Chin | Simon is a writer based in Washington DC with a background in English literature and theatre. A lapsed pianist, Simon is a graduate of Harvard College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Particular interests include piano, opera and Stephen Sondheim. |
| Simon Holden | Simon is an operaphile based in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote his
dissertation on Japanese popular music. With a background in piano and
classical music retail, he spends his time attending as much
opera or vocal concert as he can and blogs at
irishenceaway.blogspot.com. |
| Snapdragon | Snapdragon is an experienced concert- and opera-goer in Vienna and other music metropoles. Musical emphases include opera (especially Baroque opera) and piano music. As an Austrian native, Snapdragon can’t resist an operetta every now and then. |
| Stanley Fefferman | Stanley Fefferman is Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto. He is active in jazz, classical and new music circles as an accredited performance photographer and writer. His work is archived on Canadian sites The Live Music Report and Showtimemagazine. His website is here. |
| Stephanie Sirabian | Stephanie started dancing when she was three years old and never stopped. She earned her B.A. from Tufts University majoring in History with a minor in dance and currently works in publishing as a copywriter. In her spare time she enjoys creative writing and exploring all the advantages of living in NYC. |
| Stephen Raskauskas | Stephen Raskauskas is a professional musician and musicologist dedicated to early music and opera. He has collaborated with organizations ranging from the Lyric Opera of Chicago to the Goodman Theatre, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology. |
| Susan Blood | Susan's experience includes art school administration, gallery management, music publicity and journalism which you can find in print and online with her blog here. As a reviewer she has attended theater, opera, ballet and symphony all her life and loves having the opportunity to share it with others. |
| Ted Ayala | Ted Ayala is a writer and musicologist born and raised in Los Angeles. Aside from classical music he loves literature (especially from Latin America and Japan), learning languages, reading about history, video games from the 1980s-1990s, and cats. You can follow his blog here. |
| Timothy Robson | Timothy is an organist in Cleveland, Ohio. His repertoire extends to all musical periods, with a special interest in contemporary music. As a blogger he is a regular contributor to ClevelandClassical.com. In his parallel career as a librarian, Tim is Associate Director for Academic Engagement at the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University. |
| Tom Hancox | Graduating with a double-first from St Peter's College, Oxford, Thomas is a flautist who has performed with Trevor Pinnock, the Allegri and Sacconi Quartets, and the London Handel Orchestra. Formerly the Junior Editor of the British Flute Society's journal, he now acts as Ambassadors' Co-ordinator for Cavatina. |
| Verity Quaite | Having graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Music from Cardiff University, Verity is currently studying for an MA in Music, Culture and Politics. With wide and eclectic music tastes, but a particular passion for live performance, Verity reviews mainly in the Cardiff area. |
| Wilf Jones | Wilfrid Jones is a music student and choral scholar at New College, Oxford. He directs Floreat Cantus, a London-based chamber choir, and sings in various professional church choirs in Oxford. |
| Zerbinetta | Zerbinetta is a music educator in the New York area with a background in music performance, theater studies, and history. She is particularly interested in Wagner, Baroque music, and, of course, Richard Strauss. |
