John Gilks

After a career that ranged from manufacturing flavours for potato chips to developing strategies to allow IT to support best practice in cancer care, John Gilks is spending his retirement writing about classical music, opera and theatre. Based in Toronto, he has a taste for the new, the unusual and the obscure whether that means opera drawn from 1950s horror films or mainly forgotten French masterpieces from the long 19th century. Once a rugby player and referee, he now expends his physical energy on playing with a cat appropriately named for Richard Strauss’ Elektra.