Terry Barfoot.

Terry Barfoot is Senior Lecturer in Music at South Downs College. He writes for various publications, including Classical Music, Opera Now, BBC Music Magazine and Music on the Web, while for seven years he was editor of the Classical Music Repertoire Guide. His book Opera: A History was published in 1987 by The Bodley Head, then subsequently issued as an Arrow paperback, and he provided many contributions to The International Dictionary of Opera, published in Chicago in 1994. He has contriibuted to the new 2001 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He writes programme notes for many of the leading British festivals and orchestras, including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, for whom he is Publications Consultant. He has written CD insert notes for EMI, Chandos, Virgin Classics and ASV.

Terry Barfoot works frequently for the University of Oxford, where his lecture series have included 'German Romantic Opera' and 'Mozart in Vienna', while he has also worked as a guest lecturer at Cambridge, Bristol and Exeter Universities, and at Glyndebourne. A well known figure in the musical life of southern England, he has often worked closely with major composers, including for example Daniel Jones, Geoffrey Burgon, Krzysztof Penderecki and Christopher Headington.

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