Writer, composer, bassist, broadcaster, lecturer, conductor … Sandy is one of the UK’s most versatile music commentators and performers. After studying at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and working as music director for the RSC, National Theatre and in London’s West End, Sandy Burnett spent a decade as one of the core team of presenters on BBC Radio 3. For Princeton University Press he has written themes for Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow and Jane Austen’s The Beautifull Cassandra, and he is a Pretty Decent Music composing and recording artist. Away from the studio, he devises and leads cultural holidays all over the world, is the author of the Idler Guide to Classical Music, is a highly sought after double bassist on the London jazz scene, and was appointed the Academy of Ancient Music's Hogwood Fellow for the 2018-19 season. During lockdown he established an online Listening Club which meets weekly to listen to and discuss great works of classical music.