Anna Picard Author

Anna Picard studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Dr Thomas Lo Monaco in New York. She worked in the field of early music before moving into journalism. From 2000-2013 she was classical music critic of the Independent on Sunday. In 2013, she joined The Times. She is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio Three’s Record Review. In 2017, she joined Opera Holland Park as research and repertoire consultant, leading their programme of talks and panel discussions. She has served as a juror in the International Opera Awards, the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards and the Leopold Mozart Violin Competition and contributed a chapter on disease and materialism to the Overture Opera Guide to La Traviata.