Robert Avery, who accompanies all these tours, founded Habsburg Heritage Cultural Tours in 1989. He read Modern History at Cambridge and then devoted twenty years to the Anglo-Austrian Society, pioneering cultural tours and helping to run the Youth and Music Festival in Vienna. He was editorial consultant to the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Vienna and was awarded the Silver Haydn Medal of the City of Eisenstadt. When not leading tours he can usually be found at the opera.

Richard Wigmore, who gives talks at the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival, is a writer and broadcaster on musical performance of the classical period. He read French and German at Cambridge and gives classes in the history of the Lied at Birkbeck College, London University. His translations of all the Schubert songs were used in the recent Hyperion complete recordings, and he is author of the acclaimed Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn.

MARINA VAIZEY, who accompanies our Klimt in Vienna tour, was educated at Harvard and Cambridge, and has been an art critic for over forty years including almost twenty years for The Sunday Times. She has curated exhibitions, written books, including The Artist as Photographer, and Great Women Collectors, many catalogues, and edited the Art Quarterly and The Review for The Art Fund. She has been a trustee of several national museums and galleries and is currently writing, lecturing and travelling.