Bachtrack was founded in January 2008 and is the world's largest site for live and streamed classical music, opera and dance. We list over 30,000 events each year and publish around 130 reviews every month from our team of 150 reviewers based all around the world. We also interview leading singers, instrumentalists, stars of the future and important figures from behind the scenes, and preview festivals, competitions and new seasons.
Our site is published in English, French, German and Spanish, and we employ specialist editors in these languages. Over 360,000 people a month use our website from all corners of the globe.
Our listings database is uniquely well structured, allowing users to search for events by place, performer, composer or work. We work with many of the world’s top venues and organisations to maintain this service, and to make sure our listings are as comprehensive as they can be.
If you’d like your events listed on the site, our sales department would be delighted to have a chat. Please contact us here if you’d like more information about any aspect of the site or would like to work with us. You can find more about how we work on about our business model.
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Meet the team
David and Alison Karlin
Founders
David and Alison founded Bachtrack with the aim of bringing more people into the concert hall to experience the wonders of live classical music, opera and dance. This remains the goal and they continue to innovate and to use the technology available in every way possible to keep Bachtrack a site of major interest to lovers of the arts across the world.
David’s love of music and opera started young as he crept onto the landing to listen whenever his parents played opera LPs. After decades of being distracted from music by various day jobs, founding Bachtrack brought music into his working life, especially reviewing opera. David has written and still maintains the software that makes Bachtrack tick; he also does the company’s finances and HR and oversees the editorial side of the site in four languages. When not skiing (his preferred activity), David sings, plays guitar and tennis, swims and cooks.
Alison worked for years in the City of London as a fund manager before starting a family. With overall responsibility for the sales, marketing and content of the site, Alison is endlessly coming up with fresh ideas which David (mainly) talks her out of. She sings alto with a community choir, swims most days and plays a mean game of tennis. She loves early music as well as both Sibelius and Shostakovich but Bach remains the main man for her and she accepts responsibility for naming the website.
Stoyancho Bakovski
Sales Support Manager
Stoyancho (AKA Stole) joined Bachtrack in 2019. He looks after the needs of clients and ensures the smoothest possible running of their accounts, and supports the sales team by providing leads and tools for them. Stole comes from the Republic of North Macedonia, having previously worked for the Macedonian Philharmonic, the Ohrid Summer Festival, the Robert Schumann International Competition in Düsseldorf and as a piano accompanist for the Music and Drama Academies in Skopje. He spends his spare time travelling, reading or going to the theatre.
Clara Colotti
Sales Manager
Clara joined Bachtrack in 2016. In her current role as Sales Manager, she plans and crafts advertising campaigns with her existing clients and for new customers. Clara speaks German, English, Polish, Spanish and some French in addition to her native Italian. Outside office hours, Clara keeps herself busy with her PhD research focusing on how orchestras can use technology to attract audiences. One chapter of her thesis has been presented at the Innovation in Music conference and has been published in the Routledge book of the conference proceedings. When not in front of her laptop, Clara enjoys swimming and hiking.
Lawrence Dunn
Commissioning Editor
Lawrence joined Bachtrack in 2022, and is responsible for interviews and features. Aside from being a writer and editor, he is a composer, improviser, pianist and percussionist. Training at Trinity College of Music, he later attended the universities of Cambridge and Huddersfield, and has taught at both in addition to the University of Sheffield and at the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has also been a primary school music teacher. He has written music for, among others, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Ensemble Modern, Slagwerk Den Haag, Philip Thomas, Juliet Fraser, Ilya Gringolts, Plus Minus, Apartment House and Explore Ensemble.
Jo Johnson
Head of Marketing
Jo joined Bachtrack in 2022 after a 17-year tenure at the London Symphony Orchestra. She is responsible for the marketing strategy of the site, tasked with making sure the world's culture lovers know that Bachtrack is their spiritual home online. A devotee of orchestras since first coming across the BBC Proms on TV at the age of 7, she loves the buzz of seeing people at concerts enjoying the music and experience as much as she does. By night Jo is an amateur violinist and violist, happiest when playing the big symphonic works of the 20th century, and when life allows she enjoys long distance cycling and multi-sports.