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CONTRIBUTORS

DR. STEVE COLLISSON, CONSULTANT KEITH MCGOWAN

British cellist, lecturer, and examiner Dr. Steve Collisson has taught Early music expert Keith McGowan has worked with most of the
at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, the University of Birmingham, major early music ensembles in the UK and was Master of Music
and the Open University. He has adjudicated at many music festivals and on several productions at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
competitions, including the BBC Young Musician competition.
KUMI OGANO
LEVON CHILINGIRIAN
Adjunct Associate Professor in Music at Connecticut College, Kumi
Founder of the Chilingirian Quartet with the pianist Clifford Benson, Ogano is an authoritative performer of the work of Japanese composers
renowned violinist Levon Chilingirian performs worldwide and Toru Takemitsu and Akira Miyoshi.
teaches at London’s Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School
of Music & Drama. SOPHIE RASHBROOK
MATTHEW O’DONOVAN Sophie Rashbrook writes and presents on classical music for Sinfonia
Cymru and the Royal College of Music.
Head of Academic Music at Eton College, in the UK, Matthew
O’Donovan writes extensively about music. He is also a founding DR. CHRISTINA L. REITZ
member of the vocal ensemble Stile Antico and a published arranger.
Dr. Christina L. Reitz is an Associate Professor of Music at Western
GEORGE HALL Carolina University (North Carolina), where she teaches courses in
music history and American music.
A former editor for Decca and the BBC Proms, George Hall is now a
full-time music critic. He writes for a wide range of UK music publications, TIM RUTHERFORD-JOHNSON
including The Stage, Opera, and BBC Music Magazine.
A teacher at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Tim Rutherford-
MALCOLM HAYES Johnson blogs about contemporary music and is the author of Music
after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989.
Composer, writer, and broadcaster Malcolm Hayes has written
biographies of Anton Webern and Franz Liszt and edited The Selected HUGO SHIRLEY
Letters of William Walton. His Violin Concerto premiered at the BBC
Proms in 2016. Hugo Shirley is a music journalist and critic based in Berlin. He is a
regular contributor to Gramophone and Opera magazines.
MICHAEL LANKESTER
KATIE DERHAM, FOREWORD
Educated at the Royal College of Music, Michael Lankester enjoys
an international conducting career. He has been Music Director of Host of the BBC Radio 3 programs Sound of Dance and In Tune, Katie
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut, and Conductor-in- Derham is one of the station’s best-known voices. She has
Residence of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. been the face of the BBC Proms since 2010 and hosts the weekly
magazine show Proms Extra during the season. Katie also fronts
KARL LUTCHMAYER television documentaries, including The Girl from Ipanema: Brazil,
Bossa Nova, and the Beach for the BBC, and hosted the programs
An international concert pianist, Karl Lutchmayer holds a professorship All Together Now: The Great Orchestra Challenge and Fine Tuned.
at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London and is guest lecturer at In 2015 Katie was a finalist on Strictly Come Dancing, and she
various music colleges, including the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools. won the Christmas Special in 2017.

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