Richard Bratby
Richard Bratby writes on music for The Spectator, Gramophone and The Arts Desk and is deputy music critic of The Birmingham Post, as well as a programme note writer for the CBSO, the BBC, the Royal Opera House and the Salzburg Festival. Formerly an orchestral cellist and a history teacher, he was also concert manager with the CBSO and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He is the author of Forward: 100 years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (E&T, 2019) and Classical Music: An illustrated history (NQ, 2021).
