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Lynne Walker (24 October 1956 – 10 February 2011) was a British music and theatre critic. Walker was a regular broadcaster for the
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. Born in Edinburgh, she attended the
Mary Erskine School The Mary Erskine School, popularly known as "Mary Erskine's" or "MES", is an all-girls independent secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1694 and has a roll of around 750 pupils. It is the sister school of the all-boys Stew ...
. She won a medal at the end of her time at
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in 1976,Kenneth Walto
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''The Scotsman'', 23 Febryaru 2011 and gained a degree from the Huddersfield School of Music (now part of
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).Conrad Wilso
"Lynne Walker; Critic and broadcaster"
''The Herald'' (Glasgow), 22 February 2011 At the Huddersfield School, she studied oboe, the piano and conducting. It was at this time that Walker became drawn to the
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (also known by the acronym HCMF, stylised since 2006 as the lowercase hcmf//) is a new music festival held annually in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Since its foundation in 1978, it has feature ...
, and gained a scholarship to study choral conducting in France under Arthur Oldham. Her early career was as a musician, but she migrated to marketing and publicity in the early 1980s working for the
Royal Scottish National Orchestra The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) ( gd, Orcastra Nàiseanta Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a British orchestra, based in Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of the five national performing arts companies of Scotland. Throughout its history, the O ...
in Glasgow being involved in the RSNO's Music Nova (New Music) festival and editing the orchestra's journal, ''SNOscene''.Hilary Finc
"Lynne Walker: Music and theatre critic for The Independent"
''The Independent'', 22 February 2011 She performed a similar role For the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester (1987–94). In 1991 she began her own editorial consultancy Edgewise with the music critic
Gerald Larner Gerald Larner (9 March 1936 – 18 December 2018) was a British music critic. He began his career writing for ''The Guardian'', joining as assistant music critic in 1962 and as chief Northern music critic (1965-93). He wrote for ''The Times'' from ...
, whom she had married in 1989. Together, the couple wrote music programmes for the Barbican Centre,
Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London. Originally called Bechstein Hall, it specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leadi ...
and other concert venues. (Larner died in December 2018.) Walker was appointed programme editor for the
Edinburgh International Festival The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August. Notable figures from the international world of music (especially european classical music, classical music) and ...
in 1992. Simultaneously she had begun a freelance career in journalism and broadcasting. For about a decade, until the programme was dropped in 1998, she was a contributor to (and for its last two years presenter) of the BBC Radio 4 arts magazine ''
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''. She also hosted the Radio 3 programme ''In Tune''. By 2000 she was a more regular contributor to ''
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'', responsible for the newspaper's coverage of theatre events at the Edinburgh Festival, feature articles and arts criticism with an emphasis on the north of England. Lynne Walker died in
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, Cheshire having suffered from cancer for ten years.


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1956 births 2011 deaths Journalists from Edinburgh British music critics British women music critics British theatre critics British women theatre critics BBC Radio 3 presenters Deaths from cancer in England British arts administrators Mass media people from Edinburgh Scottish radio personalities The Independent people People educated at the Mary Erskine School Alumni of Edinburgh Napier University {{UK-journalist-stub