After a formative collaboration with Benjamin Britten and the English Opera Group as a boy soprano, Paul Boucher trained in Switzerland and at the Soviet-era Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow. He then pursued a career as a violinist, travelling across the globe with many of today’s leading groups. He later ran an arts festival in the Ardèche region of France and established a long-running music education programme for state primary schools in inner London. He is curator of the historic Montagu Music Collection at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, “the English Versailles”, where he has created annual exhibitions on varying historical themes. He also runs a modernist music and literature programme at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, the crucible of the Bloomsbury Group.