Aspect at a glance

presented BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music for 14 years and is the author of Bruckner Remembered, studies of Mahler and Wagner, the Rubery Award-winning How Shostakovich Changed My Mind, and The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910. Also a composer, his works include Behemoth Dances, Angel’s Arc, String Quartet, and Unquiet Sleepers. Read More →

is the acclaimed author of biographies of Ives, Brahms, Beethoven, and Mozart: The Reign of Love, and a longtime writer and lecturer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Also a composer, his works have been performed by major American and European orchestras and ensembles. Read More →

is an art historian, writer, and lecturer for the National Gallery, Royal Academy, V&A, British Museum, and Royal Opera House. Author of over 30 books and essays, including Mucha: 1860–1939, Klimt, and Lempicka, he has collaborated with Aspect since its founding and helped shape its illustrated-talk format. Read More →

 is the author of What Snowflakes Get Right, Rilke on Love, and The Dark Interval, and a recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. A writer and translator, he is University Professor at NYU, where he directs the Center for the Humanities, and has twice won NYU’s Golden Dozen Teaching Award. Read More →

is the author of the Wolfson History Prize-winning The Pleasures of the Imagination, as well as The American Leonardo and The Sinews of Power. He has held positions at Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Cambridge, the University of Chicago, the European University Institute in Florence, and Caltech. Read More →

is a musicologist specializing in late-Classical and Romantic German and Austrian music and its religious, political, and intellectual contexts. He is the author of The Catholic Beethoven (Oxford University Press), winner of the 2025 Beethoven Research Award from the American Beethoven Society. Read More →

a BBC Radio 3 producer for over 25 years, has collaborated with some of the world’s leading musicians. He has written extensively for The London Review of Books and The Guardian, contributed programme notes to Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre, and translated András Schiff’s Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir. Read More →

is an acclaimed British poet, author an a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has won the National Poetry Competition and the Cholmondeley Award. Her collections have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Costa Poetry and Ted Hughes Awards. Her books include Darwin: A Life in Poems and Beethoven Variations. Read More →