Gavin Dixon
Bio
Gavin Dixon is a writer, journalist and editor based in Hertfordshire, UK. He has a PhD on the symphonies of Alfred Schnittke and is a member of the editorial team for the Alfred Schnittke Collected Works Edition, currently being published in St Petersburg. Gavin is also a Curator of Musical Instruments at the Horniman Museum in London and Music Editor of Fanfare Magazine.
Articles By Gavin Dixon
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Britten Sinfonia, The Marian Consort, Milton Court review -...
Gesualdo was, in the words of New Yorker critic Alex Ross – “irrefutably badass”, a double murderer, sado-masochist and black magic enthusiast who...
Music Reissues Weekly: Little Girls - Valley Songs
The name, Caron and Michelle Maso explained to Los Angeles radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, was a literal description. “We’re both like five feet. We...
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review - a post-human para...
Planet of the Apes is the most artfully replenished franchise, from the original series’ elegant time-travel loop to the reboot’s rich,...
Sappho, Southwark Playhouse Elephant review - a glitzy celeb...
Who is Sappho? What is she? Not much is known about the...
Gomyo, National Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, National Concer...
No soloist gets to perform Shostakovich’s colossal First Violin Concerto without mastery of its fearsome technical demands. But not all violinists...
The Winter's Tale, Royal Ballet review - what a story,...
If there is a more striking, more moving, more downright enjoyable way to experience...
Sansara, Manchester Collective, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester...
Manchester Collective have come a long way since their early days of chamber music in dark and dingy Salford basements and former MOT test centres...
Album: Ani DiFranco - Unprecedented Sh!t
Having moved out of her mother’s apartment aged 15 to become “an emancipated minor” and set up her own record label, Righteous Babe, just four...