Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke read music at the University of
Surrey (submitting a dissertation on the early world of Alban
Berg) before studying Musical Theory and Analysis at King’s
College, London with V. Kofi Agawu and Professor Arnold Whittall
(completing with a dissertation on “Wagner’s Art of
Transition: An Analysis of selected passages from Act II of Wagner’s
Parsifal”). He writes for a variety of publications, including
Tempo (Cambridge University press), Fanfare (USA), Classical Recordings
Quarterly (CRQ, formerly Classic Record Collector) and International
Piano. He has also worked in Classical Music Copyright (Faber
Music Limited, MCPS). He has been a long-standing contributor
to Musicweb International and is part of the London reviewing
team for Seen & Heard