Chloe Frances Cutts

Commissioning editor and feature writer

United Kingdom

A commissioning editor, subeditor and feature writer with twenty years of experience in specialist arts magazines. As Editor of The Strad, I launched the inaugural Strad Sundays live event at the Barbican Centre in London in association with the London Symphony Orchestra's International Violin Festival. At the helm of International Piano I organised a high-profile media partnership with Southbank Centre's International Piano Series of concerts. Now a freelance writer and subeditor, I have been commissioned by Classical Music, Early Music Today, Music Teacher and BBC Countryfile, and worked as a subeditor for Naxos Records.

Portfolio
The Strad, April 2019
Brilliant Concepts

Augustin Hadelich is known for his musically astute interpretations of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, and his latest recording of Brahms and Ligeti is no exception

The Strad, March 2017
Adventures in Repertoire

Antipodean violinist Richard Tognetti talks new music, new directions and life at the helm of the Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Strad, February 2015
Transfigured Nights

Music, poetry and war collide in French violinist Philippe Graffin's thrillingly theatrical collaboration with the actor Gérard Depardieu

The Strad, April 2017
First at the Philharmonic

For Berlin Philharmonic first principal bassist Matthew McDonald, the search to find his voice as a player has been inextricably entwined with the sound of the orchestra

The Strad, February 2019
Tale of the Unexpected

French violinist Philippe Graffin made a chance discovery in the summer of 2017 – a previously unknown three-movement work by Eugène Ysaÿe

The Strad, May 2018
Insights from the Keyboard

The great pianist Alfred Brendel guides the Hieronymus and Marmen string quartets in a Beethoven masterclass at London’s Kings Place

The Strad, January 2019
01/01/2019
Postcard from Munich

Report from the 2018 ARD International Music Competition, where the winning players demonstrated exceptional maturity and insight

The Strad, August 2016
01/08/2016
Spectrum of Sound

Ahead of her BBC Proms debut, cellist Sol Gabetta reveals how she discovered her voice

The Strad, June 2015
01/06/2015
Seeing the Light

The players of the Carducci Quartet prepare for their epic Shostakovich quartet feat

Accessories, 2015
01/10/2015
Strength from Within

How one French case maker is fusing form with function