Paul Dawson-Bowling Author

Paul Dawson-Bowling studied classics and philosophy at school and Oxford, and joined the Civil Service before beginning, at 29, to train as a Doctor of Medicine. For thirty years he was a family doctor in Kent. In retirement, he long remained a trustee of the Sick Doctors Trust. His lifelong passion for Wagner was inspired from a young age by his father, and in 1958, when still a schoolboy, he bicycled across Europe for the Bayreuth Festival. For twenty-five years he was principal reviewer for Wagner News. He has published articles in the UK and America, and is well known as a lecturer. He was married to harpsichordist Elizabeth de la Porte (d. 2020), whose great love of Bach and Couperin he also shares.