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	HELEN WALLACE Consultant Editor - BBC Music Magazine Helen, Chair of the panel, was editor from 1999-2004. She reviews for BBC Music Magazine, BBC Radio 3's CD Review, and for Radio 4's Front Row. She has recently completed Spirit of the Orchestra, the story of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and a history of Boosey & Hawkes.
	OLIVER CONDY Editor - BBC Music Magazine Oliver Condy has an MA in music from Cardiff University, and studied the organ at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris where he won a Premier Prix. He was deputy editor of Classic FM Magazine from 2002, and became editor of BBC Music Magazine in 2004.
	DANIEL JAFFÉ Reviews Editor - BBC Music Magazine Daniel read music at Southampton University, and worked on the editorial staff of Classic CD and Gramophone prior to joining BBC Music Magazine as reviews editor in 2004. He is author of a biography of Prokofiev and is currently working on a Historical Dictionary of Russian Music.
	ANDREW MCGREGOR Presenter - CD Review, Radio 3 A trained violinist and counter-tenor, Andrew read music at Surrey University before working in the classical record industry as a BBC sound engineer. He has since been a broadcaster for the BBC World Service, Channel 4, Radio 3's Breakfast Show and is now in his 8th season of CD review.
	BERTA JONCUS Writer; Music Lecturer - University of Oxford Born in Toronto, Berta studied and worked in Vienna as a singer, and completed her Master’s degree at Bonn University. After working as an editor at the New Grove Dictionary of Music, she completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2004. In 2007 she was appointed stipendiary lecturer in music at St Anne’s College and St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
	DAVID NICE Writer, biographer Since starting out as a music critic on The Guardian, David has been treading a fine line between academe, music journalism and broadcasting. He has written books on Strauss, Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. He completed the first volume of his biography of Prokofiev (Yale University Press) in 2003, and is currently working on the second.
	GEORGE PRATT Emeritus Professor of Music - University of Huddersfield Emeritus Professor of Music at Huddersfield University and a specialist on the Baroque period, George is passionately committed to encouraging listening skills and has spent his life enthusing university students, radio listeners (co-presenting Radio 3’s Spirit of the Age), and others through the ISM (President, 1997/98) and adjudicating.
	CHRISTOPHER DINGLE Lecturer and write - Birmingham Conservatoire A lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, Christopher studied at the University of Sheffield, where he received the Chancellor's Medal for Excellence. He is author of two forthcoming books, The Life of Messiaen and Messiaen’s Final Works, and co-editor of Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art and Literature. He is chairing the Messiaen 2008 Centenary Conference.
	JAN SMACZNY Professor of Music - Queen’s University, Belfast Jan studied at Oxford University and the Charles University, Prague and is a specialist in opera and Czech music. After lecturing for many years at Birmingham University, he has, since 1996, been happily occupied as Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen’s University, Belfast. He recently edited the book Music in 19th-Century Ireland.