Jessica Duchen is a music critic, author and librettist. She contributes to the Sunday Times and BBC Music Magazine, among other publications. Her books include biographies of Korngold and Fauré and seven novels on music-related topics, most recently Immortal, about Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’. Her librettos include composer Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch, shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018, and Dalia (2022), winner of a Music and Drama Education Award. Her narrated concerts and plays with music have been performed in the UK, France and Australia.
