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
latest in today
Kanneh-Mason, Sinfonia of London, Wilson, Barbican review -...
A programme of less-loved siblings – Shostakovich’s gnarly Second Cello Concerto and Rachmaninov’s “not-the-Second” Symphony No. 1 – gave John...
Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which set out in 1914 only to be marooned until August 1916, was a failure but a “...
Album: Mystery Time - Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love
Londoner Ayman Rostom has been around the block and then some. For some 25 years he’s been a hip hop producer as Dr Zygote, for the past decade he...
Disclaimer, Apple TV+ review - a misfiring revenge saga from...
It seems to be silly season for big-name directors...
theartsdesk on Vinyl 86: Molly Tuttle, Depeche Mode, Pharoah...
VINYL OF THE MONTH
Hannah Scott Absence of Doubt (Fancourt Music)
...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera North review - one of the b...
Martin Duncan’s 2008 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of the best and funniest things Opera North has ever done – back...
Rose Matafeo, Arcola Theatre review - Starstruck star muses...
Rose Matafeo knows how to make an entrance, as she enters the stage with a choreographed dance. She's useless at ending things, she says – shows,...
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Hatfield House review - mus...
“Sero sed serio”: so runs the Salisbury family motto on the carved coat-of-arms in the lavishly panelled and painted Marble Hall of Hatfield House...
Album: MC5 - Heavy Lifting
MC5 were the original proto-punkers who led the charge against wafty hippy music in the late Sixties and early Seventies. They were touted by...