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 Edward Seckerson For as long as Edward Seckerson can remember, music and drama have been inseparable for him. Long before 'Elocution' became 'Speech and Drama', he could be heard playing Tom Forrest's adopted son Peter Stephens in The Archers . Early piano lessons were frustrating; violin lessons were also a mistake. But percussion - that was...well, a blast. He took zealously to the hardware through a variety of youth orchestras, amateur, and semi-pro bands. Sir Simon Rattle has the dirt on his cymbal playing (Mahler's Sixth Symphony has never been quite the same since). And so amateur 'skin bashing' vied with amateur dramatics. But theatre won out for a while. Turning professional as an actor was almost his undoing when he found himself on the receiving end of unfriendly fire in Sir Richard Attenborough's Arnhem epic A Bridge Too Far (or 'A Reel Too Many', as it became affectionately known). After a short stint in the record industry, his journalistic career was born with Classical Music magazine and soon grew to take in most major music publications. He is still on the review panel of Gramophone magazine, and is currently chief opera critic for The Independent. Edward has three times been a commentator in BBC TV's coverage of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has published books on Mahler, and Michael Tilson Thomas. Edward currently presents Radio 3's highly successful musical theatre show 'Stage and Screen' and can often be heard fronting 'Afternoon Performance' and guesting on 'CD Review'. |
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