James Inverne
James Inverne is one of the UK's leading arts journalists. He currently edits Gramophone, the most influential classical music magazine and before that spent more than five years with Time Magazine as European Performing Arts Correspondent. He has regularly written reviews and major features for many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph, The Times and the Mail On Sunday and he was London Theatre Correspondent for Playbill Online . He also created and edits “Inside Sundance Institute”, an award-winning magazine for Robert Redford’s institute and film festival. Books include The Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals, Inverne's Stage and Screen Trivia, Wrestling With Elephants: The Authorised Biography of Don Black, The Impresarios and Jack Tinker: A Life In Review. Prizes include the Press Gazette Award for Exclusive of the Year (for his uncovering of the Joyce Hatto piano fraud scandal) and Haymarket Media Group’s Chairman’s Award. James is a frequent broadcaster and has featured extensively on CNN and BBC Radio 4 among others. He lives with his wife and son in Reading.