Fiona Maddocks

Classical Music Critic

Fiona Maddocks has worked in radio, TV, magazines and newspapers, including as founder editor of BBC Music Magazine. She has written books on medieval German composer Hildegard of Bingen, as well as British composer Harrison Birtwistle. Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Faber) is out in paperback June 2025. She is The Observer's classical music critic.