Sobre nuestros colaboradores

Aaron Vincent nació en Londres en 1970 y reside en Madrid. Formado como arquitecto en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, es profesor de inglés, corrector y traductor especializado en teatro y musicología. Su interés principal es el teatro lírico y siente especial predilección por la ópera barroca y la zarzuela, en todas sus etapas y formatos. Es habitual de las temporadas musicales de Madrid y París. Ha colaborado con Filomúsica y Mundoclásico.

Albert Ferrer Flamarich (Barcelona, 1983). Historiador del arte y musicógrafo (Universitat Barcelona) que desde el año 2000 ha participado en numerosos de medios de comunicación escrita y de radio, editando un modesto boletín sobre zarzuela (2002-06). Trabajó para la discográfica Columna Música (2008-2013) y desde 2009 ofrece regularmente conferencias. Ha sido profesor en Universidad Catalana d’Estiu en Prada de Conflent (2015), Conservatorio de Sant Cugat del Vallès (2019) y Campus de la Experiència de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2019-2021). Es revisor y asesor de editoriales musicales, ha impulsado la publicación de títulos en español y actualmente coordina la serie sobre Eduard Toldrà para Dinsic Publicaciones Musicales.

Alex is a London-based ballet teacher. He began training at the Suzanna Raymond School of Dance and graduated from Central School of Ballet. For 15 years, he danced for companies in Austria, Spain and Germany, including Ballet de Zaragoza. Since 2015, Alex has taught in the UK at London Studio Centre, Gielgud Academy of Performing Arts, CityLit and the RAD Dance School. He contributed articles to the Dancing Times between 2018 – 2020. Recently, he initiated an award which enables dance students to see live ballet performances, in memory of his teacher, John O’Brien (former Rambert dancer and Dance Books founder.)

Alexandra hat Medienwissenschaften studiert und arbeitet als Filmproduzentin in Frankfurt. Tagsüber sind die Kunstausstellungen und Museen ganz Europas ihr zu Hause. Die Abende verbringt sie gern in der Oper und im Konzertsaal. Hier liegen ihre Schwerpunkte bei Romantischen Komponist*innen, wie Schubert und Wagner. Aber auch zeitgenössische und moderne Musik finden immer wieder Beachtung.

Professor Alexandra Wilson is a musicologist and cultural historian, with a particular interest in opera. Her books include The Puccini Problem, Puccini’s La bohème, Opera in the Jazz Age, and an edited volume, Puccini in Context. She writes regularly for publications including BBC Music Magazine, Opera and The Critic, as well as for national newspapers, and has contributed essays to the programme books of all the UK’s major opera companies and many abroad. She has taught at the University of Oxford, the Open University, and for 18 years was on the staff at Oxford Brookes University.

Born and raised in Rome, Alissa is an Italian pianist, musicologist and journalist. She graduated at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and studied Musicology at University La Sapienza. She is now taking a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communication at Luiss University and her articles have been published on Music.it, ZetaLuiss and HuffingtonPost. Alissa loves Debussy but, if she could, she would like to be reborn as a Mahler symphony. She can’t live without theatre although her friends would say she obsesses even more about her unconditional love for Amy Winehouse and Soul music.

Amanda wrote for Dance Europe for twelve years and has also written for Dance Australia and Dance International. She trained at Arts Educational and with David Howard, Melissa Hayden, Patricia Wilde and Valentina Pereyaslavec in New York. She danced for two years with New Jersey Ballet, and in the UK with Vienna Festival Ballet and Vyvyan Lorrayne’s London’s Imperial Ballet. Her freelance career included work with the Royal Opera, ENO, film, television and modelling. She was in the original cast of On Your Toes with Natalia Makarova. Amanda also taught extensively and holds the diploma of the PDTC at the RAD with Distinction.

Andrea Lorenzo Lancho comenzó estudiando piano en su niñez con clases particulares y autodidactas. Continuó formándose con el grado de Musicología en la Universidad de Salamanca y posteriormente cursó el Máster de Música Hispana en dicha universidad. Durante su formación universitaria participa en proyectos sobre la transmisión oral de la figura de la mujer en la música popular, iconografía musical y la creación de bandas sonoras. Actualmente colabora con revistas de folklore, e investiga sobre las bandas sonoras, el traspaso de la música popular y la difusión de la música clásica en los medios de comunicación.

Antonio D’Amato is an Italian freelance journalist and international music critic based in The Hague, Netherlands. With over 20 years of experience, he specialises in classical music reviews, interviews and press services. He holds a Master’s degree in Economic Journalism. A skilled ghost writer, he was nominated and awarded at the Libreria Piave literary contest in Rome (2014) for best plot. Passionate food blogger and expert in Italian cuisine, he is also an avid collector of historical recordings and vintage high-fidelity audio equipment. He teaches Italian language, sharing his love for culture.

Asher Rubenstein is a young pianist, living and studying in London. He is on a mission to see as many great pianists as time and money will allow. He has campaigned for improved concessions at major concert venues to attract the next generation of music lovers. Outside the concert hall, Asher spends much of his time baking cheesecake and then swimming to burn it off. 

Ben Lunn is a composer, trade unionist, and disabled campaigner who has written about many areas of music including the work of Horaţiu Rădulescu, Baltic composers, and music and disability. He is a regular contributor to the Morning Star and Culture Matters, and he has been published internationally in both academic and journalistic publications, including in Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia (Policy Press, 2021), edited by Nicole Brown.

Caitlín Doherty is a writer based in London, with bylines in Harper’s, New Left Review, Jacobin and the New Statesman.

Cameron Kelsall is a classical music critic and cultural reporter. He has written for Bachtrack since 2019, and his byline has appeared in many national and international classical music publications. Based in Philadelphia, he regularly travels around the United States for musical events. In addition to his career in journalism, Cameron also teaches in the Theatre Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a certified sommelier and avid home cook. His favorite composer is Mahler. Twitter: @CameronPKelsall.

Born in the Philippines, Carla trained as a ballet and modern dancer with the Alice Reyes Dance Company in Manila. She has lived and worked in Asia and the U.S. and has written about the arts for Bachtrack, KQED (the northern California public media broadcaster), Dance International, dance journal/hk, the Huffington Post, Dance Europe and ballettothepeople. 

Charlotte Gardner is a music critic and journalist regularly to be found in specialist music publications including Gramophone (where she specialises in strings and Baroque), The Strad and Classical Music magazine, and writing concert programme notes for organisations including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Before turning to writing she spent eight years at the BBC, the final years of which were in News, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She holds a Music MA from the University of Cambridge.