Books By Gordon Stewart - Author

Gordon Stewart is a musician, broadcaster and writer. From early days in a Durham mining village, his educational journey took him to a school in Hampstead, then to Cambridge and a Modern Languages degree, and on to the Royal College of Music and a London University music degree. As a pianist, he performed widely as a soloist and yet more as a partner of instrumentalists and singers. He knows the recording studio well, both as a performer and as a producer on the other side of the glass. He was encouraged to work for the BBC and broadcast extensively in programmes for Radio 3 and the World Service. After a few years he joined the staff of Radio 3's Music Department, eventually becoming its Deputy Head. He's written, produced and presented hundreds of programmes, including six studio operas, one of which is now on CD. His production of the first live music broadcast on radio of a concert from Leningrad, as it then was, gained a Sony Award for the outstanding radio music broa