Jean-Michel Molkhou has played the violin since he was a child and divides his time between his work as a surgeon and his passion for his instrument. He has been a music critic for Diapason for the past twenty-five years, contributes regularly to the British journal The Strad and is co-author of a CD-ROM entitled The Violin: the Multimedia Encyclopedia. He has produced several series of programs on France Musique and for many years has also participated in the “Tribune des critiques de disques”, a France Musique program that compares different recordings of works from the classical repertoire.