Linton Stephens @lintonstephens.bsky.social Lint. Laugh. Love
He/Him Presenter for @bbcradio3 Bassoonist•Broadcaster•Activist•Illustrator•MU Members Assembly Chair ED&I co-vice•Board member✊🏾•🏳️🌈•🇯🇲•🇬🇧 views my own
Edward Edgcumbe @gumbe.bsky.social Head of Artistic Planning & Production,
BBC Philharmonic
www.edwardedgcumbe.com
Anna Bonitatibus @annabonitatibus.bsky.social 
Héloïse Werner @heloisewerner.bsky.social Soprano & Composer - Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall - singer in The Hermes Experiment
Bärenreiter @barenreiter.bsky.social Bärenreiter is one of the largest publishers of classical music worldwide
John Rutter @johnrutter.bsky.social Composer and conductor. Posts by the team unless signed JR.
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social A grant-giving charity, with composers at the heart, formed by the merger of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust and the RVW Trust.
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social 
Karen McLernon @bbbmrs.bsky.social Opera, Ballet, Proms. Better third of @bangorballetboy. All views are my own etc etc 🇪🇺 Instagram: bbb_mrs
Hertfordshire Chorus @hertfordshirechorus.org.uk Next concert:
Elgar, Parry, Glass, Dove.
Including Elgar’s “From the Bavarian Highlands” from our recent album.
7.30pm Saturday 17th Oct 2026
St Albans Cathedral
https://hertfordshirechorus.org.uk/concerts
St Albans Bach Choir @stalbansbachchoir.bsky.social Established in 1924, directed by William Fox.
https://www.stalbansbachchoir.org.uk/
Crouch End Festival Chorus @thechoircefc.bsky.social A versatile and in-demand world class symphonic choir based in North London. To find out more, visit www.cefc.org.uk or https://linktr.ee/crouchendfestivalchorus1984
Neil Ferris @neilcpferris.bsky.social Conductor. Chorus Director BBC Symphony Chorus. Artistic Director Sonoro. Conductor Leith Hill Festival.
Sports lover. Dad.
Will Dawes @wjbdawes.bsky.social Baritone, Choral Conductor. Somerville Ox, Mary Mags Ox. Dad to Beckett, Husband to Katie. Recovering twitterholic
Gawain Glenton @gawainglenton.bsky.social Conductor/cornetto player living Manchester with scribbler/political better half and gorgeous kids. Here for early music, nice gardens, politics (I’m a Labour campaigner/candidate in Trafford) and food.
Grace Davidson Soprano @gracedavidson.bsky.social Professional Soprano•Singer• specialising in Medieval•Renaissance•Baroque•Film & Tv music• Singer of Wolf Hall ‘The Mirror & The Light• Found In the studio•& On tour 🎤🎶🌎 www.gracedavidsonsoprano.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3581327/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
Joseph Middleton @josephmiddleton.bsky.social Learning the piano, learning about songs | Director Leeds Song | Professor Royal Academy of Music | Resident Musician Pembroke College, Cambridge | Enthusiastic Gluton | Amateurish Father
Www.josephmiddleton.com
Agent: IMG ARTISTS
Stile Antico @stileantico.co.uk Early music vocal ensemble, recording for Decca Classics. Represented by Ikon Arts. ‘Breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance' (NYT).
www.stileantico.co.uk
Kathy Nicholson @kathy1nicholson.bsky.social Mezzo Soprano. BBC Singer. Chorister mum. Delights in statement earrings. Suffolk heart, London feet.
Rebecca Lea @rebeccajlea.bsky.social Soprano living in SW London.
https://www.rebeccalea.co.uk/new-winter-songbook.html
Petra Hajduchová @petracembalo.bsky.social Harpsichordist, church organist, piano accompanist & music teacher. PhD candidate. Jive dancer, crochet enthusiast. Running for charities. Czech 🇨🇿living in the UK🇬🇧
Ashley Beauchamp @ashbeauchamp.bsky.social Conductor/Repetiteur. Head of Music and Co-Director of YA Programme at Waterperry Opera Festival. Musical Director of the Glyndebourne Youth Opera Company.
Found all over the place. You’re probably pronouncing my surname wrong.
www.ashleybeauchamp.com
Choral Evensong Trust @choralevensong.org Promoting a beautiful 450-yr-old musical service sung and streamed online. Watch and listen to Evensong online wherever you are, whenever you like, for free.
Find Evensong near you, today.
choralevensong.org
B'Rock Orchestra @brockorchestra.bsky.social 🎶 One of today’s most successful and forward-thinking period orchestras with the Baroque era at heart
@errollynwallen.bsky.social @errollynwallen.bsky.social 
@oramsa.bsky.social @oramsa.bsky.social 
Matthew Rose @mrosesings.bsky.social Singer https://askonasholt.com/artist/matthew-rose
Artistic Director Folkestone on Song
https://www.soundsfolkestone.co.uk/initiatives/folkestone-on-song/
Director Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
https://www.mahler-lewitt.org/spoleto-vocal-arts-workshop
Will Unwin @unwillwin.bsky.social Mostly here for the cat videos. Proud former member of The Sixteen etc. Will sing Scarlatti Stabat Mater for free any time, anywhere. Recovering bassoonist. NYCGB and NYO Alumnus.
William Whitehead @williamwhitehead.bsky.social Musician | Real Tennis Player | Forgetter of Hotel Room Numbers
Rebecca Bottone @bigpinkbutton.bsky.social Opera singer. Singing Teacher.
https://www.musichall.uk.com/artists/sopranos/rebecca-bottone
Bibi Heal @bibiheal.bsky.social Freelance soprano, mother of Ethiopian twins, co-founder Songs That Move; classical songs to exercise body and brain
Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social Composer based in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Research Fellow @guildhallschool.bsky.social. Weithiau yn Gymraeg.
Profile photo: Claire Shovelton
Artist website: https://rchrdbkr.com/
Ann Lander 🇪🇺 @f1annie.bsky.social Opera, F1, wildlife, travel.
Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social We listen, support and advocate for ALL freelancers in the arts. An inclusive, independent community for the 200,000+ self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of arts. https://linktr.ee/FMTW
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
Anna Mears @annamearsy.bsky.social Head of Comms for Radio 4, 5 Live and BBC Sounds. Previously BBC Arts. Music industry survivor
Kenneth Woods @kennethwoods.net Conductor, writer, cellist, guitarist, composer. Artistic Director English Symphony Orchestra, Elgar Festival, Colorado MahlerFest. Bandleader and songwriter. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/kennethwoods
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social Writer, editor, librettist. Writing a biography of Vernon Elliott and a radio play about Handel and Hendrix.
http://notes-upon-notes.com/
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
Michael Volpe OBE @noisymv.bsky.social Founder and former CEO Opera Holland Park.
Written a couple of books.
https://linktr.ee/mvolpe
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
UK Critics' Circle Music @ccmusicuk.bsky.social The Music Section of the UK Critics' Circle criticscircle.org.uk
Anna Huntley @annahuntley.bsky.social 
Petroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
Bill Bankes-Jones @billbj.bsky.social Opera & theatre director working hard to make my & others’ dreams come true, AD @teteateteopera.bsky.social founding member of @freelancersmake.bsky.social, Water Safety Officer RNLI, opera, freelancers, Cornwall, cairn terriers, hEDS, surf…
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏄🏼♂️🐾🗣️🎶🦓🥟
ArtisticLeader @artisticleader.bsky.social aka Martin Duncan | Theatre & Opera Director | Cold swimmer & film devotee. My spiritual homes: Brockwell Lido & BFI Southbank | London born & bred (PS I don’t have a cat) www.martinduncan.com 🎶
Christine Goerke @heldenmommy.bsky.social Dramatic Soprano, Artistic Consultant and fierce Artistic Advocate, Coach, 🦁💙Detroit Lions Fan (#GoPride)and soccer mom - not necessarily in that order..
Leo Doulton @leodoulton.bsky.social Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
Joseph McHardy @josephmchardy.bsky.social Choral director, educator and editor, PhDing at Nottingham Uni - Lusitano, C16th Blackness, mixedness; how European Classical music talks about it (📷Nick Rutter) 🏴🇨🇩he/him
Operatraveller @operatraveller.bsky.social Operatic wanderer. Flâneur lyrique.
www.operatraveller.com
Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Alice Gribbin @alicegribbin.bsky.social Soprano in BBC Singers.
Jennifer Johnston @jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social • British Opera Singer
• Rep: HarrisonParrott Group
• Patron: Streetwise Opera, Destination Opera, Southport Bach Choir
• LCR Music Board Member
• Cultural & Artistic Strategy Consultant: clients incl. London Transport Museum, Opera de Montreal
Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social Yes it’s The Captain off of Ghosts. Screenwriter and you know the rest.
www.benwillbond.com
https://instagram.com/benjaminwillbond
Baroness Barbara Keeley @baronesskeeley.bsky.social Labour Peer. Former MP for Worsley & Eccles South & former Shadow Minister for the Arts and Music.
Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social Composer, climate campaigner, dad.
Main site: https://hutchingsmusic.co.uk
Songs trying to save the world: http://choirsforclimate.com
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/hutchingsmusic
Videos: http://youtube.com/@choirsforclimate
he/they, Edinburgh
Carolyn Sampson OBE @carolynsampson.bsky.social Soprano, mum, Gramophone Artist of the Year 2024
100th album: ‘But I like to sing…’ available here https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9538029--but-i-like-to-sing
www.carolynsampson.com
Stuart MacRae @stuartmacrae.bsky.social Composer. Operas (Anthropocene/The Devil Inside)
orchestral | chamber | vocal
http://linktr.ee/stuartmacrae
Support and more via Music Patron: https://musicpatron.com/r/c/85
Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social conductor | head coach @ National Opera Studio | keyboard & continuo | tenor @stileantico.co.uk | dad | cyclist | cricket tragic | maker of lists
www.andrewgriffiths.info
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social
Views my own.
mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk
Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
Sign up: http://wordsonmusic.substack.com
Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social Welsh-Irish opera singer 🏴 🇮🇪 🎶
Writer 📖
Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Westminster, London 🎤 💻
#Penarth 🏖️
#Cymraeg 🐦🔥
www.paulcareyjones.net
keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
Mark Valencia 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @markvalencia.bsky.social Critic for Opera, Bachtrack and Musical America. Essex man, Francophile, grandfather, passionately pro-EU.
Reducing my presence here. It's been a disappointment.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords. 
Susan Medcalf @pennymarshwort.bsky.social Field botanist
Sarah Playfair @splayfair.bsky.social Freelance opera casting director
John Savournin @johnsavournin.bsky.social Opera Singer / Director
Next: Captain Corcoran, HMS Pinafore, ENO
Artistic Director, Charles Court Opera
CEO and Artistic Director, Waterperry Opera Festival
Ruth Elleson @ruthelleson.bsky.social Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
Jessica Duchen @jessicaduchen.bsky.social Classical music critic, author, librettist. MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE out now and available from https://www.kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-hess-national-treasure/
Jamie Henderson @jamiesdh.bsky.social Yorkshireman in London. Lover of Art Song, opera, classical music, ballet, theatre. Strictly Come Dancing & RuPaul's Drag Race fan. Glutton. 🌈
Bachtrack @bachtrack.com Welcome to the world’s largest site for classical music, opera and dance: events, articles & reviews. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. https://bachtrack.com/ 
Aidan Oliver @aidanoliver.bsky.social Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
David Butt Philip @davidbuttphilip.bsky.social Human tenor.
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social Composer. Cricketer. Third thing.
https://linktr.ee/bernardhughes
Delphian Records @delphianrecords.com Gramophone Award-winning classical/comtemporary record label operating from Edinburgh.
Our catalogue is curated to inspire the adventurous 🚀
🎙️ www.delphianrecords.com
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. I’m @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social The UK's only trade union for musicians
A community 36,500 strong
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Streetwise Opera @streetwiseopera.bsky.social We inspire and empower people experiencing homelessness as they rebuild their lives.
Info: https://streetwiseopera.org/
Donate https://justgiving.com/campaign/standwithstreetwise
Press: https://reytrombetta.bsky.social/
Paul Plummer @londonoperacoach.bsky.social Lover of music, wit and wine living in North-West Kent, UK