Lynne Walker

Education

Born in Edinburgh, she attended the Mary Erskine School.

Career

lieutenant was at this time that Walker became drawn to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 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 Scottish National Orchestra and later for the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester (1987-1994). Simultaneously she had begun a freelance career in journalism and broadcasting.

Foreign about a decade, until the programme was dropped in 1998, she was a contributor to (and for its last two years presenter) of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope.

She also hosted the Radio 3 programme In Tune. By 2000 she was a more regular contributor to The Independent, 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 Alderley Edge, Cheshire having suffered from cancer.

Achievements

• She won a medal at the end of her time at Napier College in 1976, and gained a degree from the Huddersfield School of Music (now part of Huddersfield University).