Oliver Soden is a writer and broadcaster on music and the arts.
He was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English.
His work includes an edition of John Barton's ten-play epic Tantalus; articles in publications such as Gramophone and the Guardian; a number of programme and CD-liner notes; reviews and essays for world-leading scholarly journals; and numerous broadcasts, live events, pre-concert talks, interviews, conference appearances, and academic papers. He is currently writing a biography of the twentieth-century British composer Michael Tippett.
Oliver is part of the team behind BBC Radio 3's long-running programme Private Passions, and has worked as a researcher for a number of award-winning television documentaries. He grew up in Bath and Sussex, and lives in South London.
He was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English.
His work includes an edition of John Barton's ten-play epic Tantalus; articles in publications such as Gramophone and the Guardian; a number of programme and CD-liner notes; reviews and essays for world-leading scholarly journals; and numerous broadcasts, live events, pre-concert talks, interviews, conference appearances, and academic papers. He is currently writing a biography of the twentieth-century British composer Michael Tippett.
Oliver is part of the team behind BBC Radio 3's long-running programme Private Passions, and has worked as a researcher for a number of award-winning television documentaries. He grew up in Bath and Sussex, and lives in South London.