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.
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In the Long Run, Series 2, Sky 1 review - Idris Elba's...
Dust off the record player: Idris Elba’s Eighties comedy...
Richard Hawley, Barrowland, Glasgow - black clad crooner...
When Richard Hawley arrived onstage, he had a confession to make. “I like to talk”, he declared, before adding “and play rock n’ roll”. Both were...
theartsdesk Q&A: Gianandrea Noseda on conducting Mahler...
There's something about the very opening of a Mahler symphony...
The Peanut Butter Falcon review - sentimental comedy is so d...
It’s an uncomfortable feeling to find oneself completely at odds with an audience in a cinema, but it happens. The recent London Film Festival...
Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy, Gold review - illumi...
Sir Lenny Henry, PhD and CBE, is scarcely recognisable as the teenager who made his TV debut on New Faces in 1975. He’s been a stand-up...
Bill Frisell's Harmony, Cadogan Hall review – superb Am...
“Bill Frisell is all about sound and melody and enhancing whatever context he is in.” That quote, which defines both the American guitarist’s...
Zauberland, Linbury Theatre review - an adaptation that adds...
Dichterliebe is a song-cycle full of gaps, silences, absences. Where is the piano at the start of “Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet” when the...
Chaos in the Cockpit: Flights from Hell, Channel 5 review -...
Apparently your odds of dying in a plane crash are about one in 11 million, while chances of death in a car accident are about one in 5,000....
Bevan, The Sixteen, Genesis Sixteen, Christophers, Barbican...
Verdi, Elgar, Janáček, John Adams - just four composers who achieved musical transcendence to...