Michael Church

MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times , and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent . From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great...See more

MICHAEL CHURCH has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor; he is a former television critic of The Times , and since 2010 has been the opera critic of The Independent . From 1992 to 2005 he reported on traditional musics all over the world for the BBC World Service; in 2004, Topic Records released a CD of his Kazakh field recordings, and in 2007 two further CDs of his recordings in Georgia and Chechnya. He is the editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions (Boydell Press, 2015), winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's Award for Creative Communication. See less