James Jolly

James is Editor Emeritus of Gramophone, having previously been Editor. For 25 years he organised and hosted the Gramophone Classical Music Awards which in 2021 reached an audience of over 300,000 via its live stream. He makes a weekly interview podcast for Gramophone, talking to the leading classical musicians of our day. For many years a regular voice on BBC Radio 3, he has twice presented the Tchaikovsky Competition from Moscow and St Petersburg for medici.tv; in 2019, hosting all the piano rounds and the three gala concerts. He filmed a series of in-depth interviews for medici.tv with 12 of music’s movers and shakers, ‘Musicmakers’, including Joyce di Donato, Barbara Hannigan, Pretty Yende, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniil Trifonov, Kaija Saariaho and Pascal Dusapin, supplementing them recently with one with Bertrand Chamayou.