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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Gold Digger, BBC One review - Julia Ormond tackles those mid...
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'The Academy and I': composer and viola-player Sal...
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Vampire Weekend, O2 Academy, Birmingham review – clean-cut A...
By the time Vampire Weekend reached Birmingham on their latest UK jaunt, they had unfortunately managed to mislay their support band, the...
Roméo et Juliette, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - sur...
So much was fresh and exciting about Michael Tilson Thomas's years as the ...
World on Fire, BBC One, series finale review - may this fine...
A bit like all those people on the home front in 1940 (but only a little bit), we sit and nervously wait for news. Is World on Fire (...
Williams, LPO, Alsop, RFH review - sleek lines and pastoral...
The London Philharmonic’s Isle of Noises, a...
Jack Dee, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage review - now he re...
Jack Dee has made a career out of being a grumpy old man, even though he started on the...