Paul Dawson Bowling is a Doctor of Medicine who has lived his life in the knowledge of Wagner. As a school-boy in 1958 he bicycled across Europe to Bayreuth for the Ring and the other three works of Wagner’s maturity, Tristan, Die Meistersinger, and Parsifal.
For twenty years he has been principle reviewer of stage performances and recordings for Wagner News, Journal of the English Wagner Society. His “Paul Dawson-Bowling Lecture” in is a landmark annual event in the Society’s London Calendar. He has contributed frequently to the Journals of the Wagner Societies in North America, and to the journal of Seattle Opera. He has also published articles on Bruckner, notably an analysis of the Thematic and Tonal Unity in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; and is working on a book, The Wagner Experience And Its Meaning to Us.
He recently retired from being a family doctor at Faversham, in East Kent, and he is married to the harpsichordist, Elizabeth de la Porte.
PAUL DAWSON-BOWLING