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David Nice is the author of short studies of Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky, and the first volume of his Prokofiev biography, From Russia to the West 1891-1935, was published in 2003 by Yale University Press; he is currently working on the second.
A regular contributor to Radio 3, his many programmes for CD Review's long-running Building a Library series have featured, among many other works, Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin and Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. He has scripted four 'Opera Bites' for Glyndebourne: Beethoven's Leonore, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery and War and Peace.
He is a monthly contributor to the BBC Music Magazine and writes regular programme notes for the London orchestras and, especially, the Royal Opera and Ballet. He runs a highly popular 'Opera in Focus' series at the City Literary Orchestra, collaborates with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a course at Morley College and is a Visiting Lecturer on Goldsmiths College's Russian Music MMus degree course.