Charlotte Gardner
music critic & journalist
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Charlotte Gardner is a music critic and journalist regularly to be found in specialist music publications including The Strad, Gramophone (where she specialises in strings and Baroque) and Classical Music magazine, and writing concert programme notes for organisations including the BBC and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Before turning to writing, Charlotte spent eight years at the BBC working across live and pre-recorded radio and television, beginning on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and spending her final few years in News, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. She holds a Music MA from the University of Cambridge.