Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
@oglanut.bsky.social @oglanut.bsky.social 
Eclectic Voices @eclecticvoices.bsky.social One of the most ambitious choirs in London with the variety the name implies.
Our event on March 15th is a concert to celebrate 35 years of Eclectic Voices, with Dame Emma Kirkby and professors Robert Levin and David Dolan. To take part see our website.
George Vass @georgevass.bsky.social Conductor, Festival Director, lover of great music, food and wine, passionate supporter of living classical composers. Spiritual home – Presteigne in the Welsh Marches.
Our Lady of Perpetual Headphones @olph.bsky.social Endearingly Weird, Unapologetic Book Nerd. 🇨🇦 Global Citizen. Writer. Artist. Musician. Audiophile. Synaesthete. Lover of Life, Authenticity, Creativity & Laughter.
Alan Fleming Baird @flemingbaird.bsky.social Composer. Studied Royal College of Music. PhD in music and linguistics. Arts Festival director. Teaching the MA in Creative Industries at Glasgow University www.flemingbaird.org
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Christian Hoskins @aquilanebula.bsky.social Public transport specialist, reviewer for Gramophone, occasional traveller & photographer.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social Playing all the notes since 2005. Proud creators of Aurora Classroom, helping teachers teach music with confidence.
Come and say hello https://linktr.ee/auroraorchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra @philharmonialondon.bsky.social A symphony orchestra for the 21st century. At home in London and creating thrilling performances for a global audience. Find out more at www.philharmonia.co.uk
Earth Choir Academy @earthchoiracademy.com A non-profit music education organisation aiming to empower, educate and inspire individuals around the world to learn and love the language of singing. We are the proud home of Choir of the Earth, Choir of the Earth Events, and more to come very soon!
Cheryl Forbes @mezzocheryl.bsky.social Opera singer, Wife, Scot 🏴 Travel, Photography, #LivingWithPsoriaticArthritis Anti-bullying, Anti-Poverty, Anti-War, Hugger
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
Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com The world's first daily classical music magazine, launched 1 January 1999 by the late Basil Ramsey and Keith Bramich.
Something new every day, hopefully to inspire you, at https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/?bsky
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Jeff Sorensen @jeffsorensen.bsky.social Safety Engineer and amateur lyricist. See www.youtube.com/@jeffksorensen for several hundred sets of lyrics waiting to be sung.
Christina R @chrros.bsky.social Into opera, crime fiction, politics, food, the Roman Empire and dogs. Unapologetically liberal. No DM:s. No crypto conmen.🇸🇪
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
Equity @equityuk.bsky.social We are the UK performing arts and entertainment trade union, made up of 50,000 performers and creative practitioners. Together we push for better pay, terms and conditions in the workplace.
www.equity.org.uk
Clive Whitburn @clivewhitburn.bsky.social #Composer, #conductor, #choral #baritone, cross genre #musician, #oboe, #sax, #guitar, #sitar, #mandocello, #piano
Here for
Music
Musicians
Politics/news
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Be human
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I rarely answer DMs
Eastbourne UK
www.clivewhitburn.com
Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social steveschmidt.substack.com
www.youtube.com/@thewarningwithsteveschmidt
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Lee Ward @leeward68.bsky.social Organist and harpsichord player. Teacher and choral conductor. Loving Yorkshire.
Ellen Moeller @ellenmoeller.bsky.social Opera singer, choral singer, animal lover, vegan, long distance runner
RDMR @rdmr1.bsky.social Specialist music PR and digital services across the performing arts sector✨
@violamaths.bsky.social @violamaths.bsky.social 
Tara Persaud @tarapersaud.bsky.social Law, classical music, theatre, musicals, books, violin, politics, history/historiography.
English, German and French in that order.
Also #TheArchers.
Views: my own.
RTs: interest not endorsement
CSMCat @csmcat.bsky.social
Maker of lists. Drinker of tea. 
John Ivor Holland @johnivorholland.bsky.social Composer, conductor, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, runner, baker, passionate advocate for music by women and community music-making.That'll do. 🤪 ...no, wait a minute, I forgot, also bellringer. 😊 Husband of @thevicarofhell.bsky.social
Choir of the Earth @choiroftheearth.com 🎼 We are an acclaimed global online choir, offering unique opportunities to learn, sing & record great choral works, no matter who or where you are. Enjoy award-winning teaching, innovative tools & a passion for great music. Join us at choiroftheearth.com
Emma Curtis @emmacurtisvoice.bsky.social All about voice! Having one, using it, feeling good about it etc. Hats include: opera singer, voice coach, specialist in performance anxiety, researcher in psychology, ceremony designer, celebrant trainer/supervisor.
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Virtually Opera @virtuallyopera.bsky.social Creating fusion opera and beautiful entertainment. Currently preparing for the Come Bargain trilogy, spring 2025.
Stuart Barker @operastuart.bsky.social Opera director, acting teacher and art historian. Avid theatre fan. An astrophysicist many moons ago.
Hull Urban Opera @hull-urban-opera.bsky.social Innovative immersive opera in Hull & East Yorkshire. Digital opera on Sky Arts and NOW TV.
https://hullurbanopera.com
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Laura GET RID OF THE NAZIS ✡️ @petrarchian.bsky.social Laura. Disenchanted Millennial. Mean opera bisexual. Not even a little bit neurotypical. Sometimes I perform Le Nozze di Figaro in the shower. She/her/hers.
Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social Librettist & lyricist. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner). Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Opinions own. She/her. ✍🏼👩🏻💻🎶
Bruno Ravella @brunoravella.bsky.social Freelance international opera director. Next Der Rosenkavalier at Garsington Opera. Represented by Sally Donegani at Maestro Arts
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
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
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
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/
Tim Burke @timburkemusic.bsky.social Conductor based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Music Director of Tête à Tête. Building opera and community music projects in Newcastle and North Shields.
timburkemusic.co.uk
Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social Mezzo-soprano from Wales / NZ
www.joannaharries.com
🎵 NEXT: Hansel & Gretel - Longborough Festival Opera
💿 New album: Letters from Scandinavia
🌳 Co-founder SongPath
🎓 National Opera Studio, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Northern College of Music
Benjamin Hulett @benjaminhulett.bsky.social Singer, Tenor
Martin Constantine @martinconstantine.bsky.social Artistic Director of Streetwise Opera.
streetwiseopera.org
martinconstantine.com
https://justgiving.com/campaign/standwithstreetwise#sharePage
Caitlin Mawhinney @mawhinneydesign.bsky.social Set & Costume Designer • The Stage Debut Award Nominee • Evening Standard Award Winner •
☆ Builder of worlds, lover of light ☆
www.caitlinmawhinney.com
Tête à Tête @teteateteopera.bsky.social Tête à Tête is the future of opera. We do extraordinary things in extraordinary places, hosting and producing new opera.
Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro. Tao of Glass
Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk
www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social Film & documentary composer | cellist | BAFTA Connect | 'Orchard Street: The Opera' | Bristol-based
Ron88keys 🫶🌈🍉🎹🎵 @ron88keys.bsky.social I'm a DM for Severed Studios AP podcasts, pianist & music director. 💕 Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, and video game music! He/they & happy neurospicy greygender hopepunk AF
Science is real!
https://youtube.com/@ron88keys
https://substack.com/@ron88keys
Milly March @millymarch.bsky.social Arts marketer & photographer. Working w/ orchestras, venues, choirs, opera companies and promoters. Not smiling enough on Zoom since 2020. Views nicked from people I respect.
She/they
📍Cambridge
Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/millymarch
Elizabzth van Ofs @elizabethvanos.com 
Chris Hopkins @chrishopkinsmusic.bsky.social Conductor and pianist
www.chrishopkinsmusic.com
JOHN Y. @jmy1tenor.bsky.social I was an oboe player and then an opera singer but now I'm an opera composer! It's always fun to re-invent yourself, right?😉 http://soundcloud.com/you/tracks
Vic Vaughan @vicvaughan.bsky.social Writer/Director
upmarket fiction/feature screenplays/musicology
opera/film/musical theatre
4dogs/2cats/1teenager
she/her
Jane Hobson @janehobson.bsky.social Freelance photographer. Performing Arts. Previously a strategic whizz in advertising/marcomms. London & Edinburgh (& anywhere inbetween & beyond). ND. www.janehobson.com
Dominic Stafford Uglow @sellypaws.bsky.social Opera Agent. Snarky. Owned by a big, yellow dog and a small, white cat.
www.stafford-law.com
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Dr Kara McKechnie @drkmck.bsky.social Anglo-German dramaturg & academic:
Oper Leipzig, University of Leeds.
Lee David Bowen @leedavidbowen.bsky.social British Character Tenor with principal credits at English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Longborough Festival Opera. Singing voice of Piangi in Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
Find out more bio.site/leedavidbowen
František Brikcius @brikcius.bsky.social Czech #Cellist František @Brikcius - #Cello Suites (J. S. Bach, B. Britten, E. Bloch, eSACHERe, M. Reger, G. Tartini) / Doc Film MAKANNA / #DuoBrikcius - https://www.Brikcius.com 🇨🇿🇬🇧🇫🇷
New York Philharmonic @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social The New York Philharmonic connects with up to 50 million music lovers annually through live concerts in New York and around the world, broadcasts, recordings, education programs, and the Leon Levy digital archives. Visit our website: http://nyphil.org
Philharmonie de Paris @philharmoniedeparis.fr Listen, watch, learn, discover and practice music in every form.
Askonas Holt @askonasholt.bsky.social Leading international classical music and arts management agency
#MakingMusicHappen since 1876
Find us everywhere @AskonasHolt
London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social Sharing the wonder of classical music 🌟
Discover what we’re all about and where to find us on our website ➡ lpo.org.uk
London Symphony Orchestra @londonsymphony.bsky.social Extraordinary music for everyone, everywhere ✨
https://www.lso.co.uk/
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra @orpheusnyc.org Celebrating 50 years of redefining classical music. A radical experiment in artistic collaboration, an orchestra without a conductor. http://orpheusnyc.org
Madeleine Mitchell @madeleinemitchell.bsky.social Violinist performing worldwide. Director London Chamber Ensemble & The Red Violin festival reg charity, professor Royal College of Music, opera and art lover, Mama
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/
Héloïse Werner @heloisewerner.bsky.social Soprano & Composer - Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall - singer in The Hermes Experiment
Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social Classical music obsessive. 🏳️🌈
Stephen Barchan @stephenbarchan.bsky.social Composer; Senior Tutor in Composition and Music Theory at Dulwich Music Academy; Music Consultant for London New Wind Festival; PhD candidate at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
https://stephenbarchan.com
Nina Kopparhed @ninaksoprano.bsky.social London based soprano. Loves performing contemporary music, music by female composers and Swedish composers. She/her
Joyce DiDonato @joycedidonato.bsky.social ✨Official Account
“The opposite of war isn't peace… It's creation!” - J. Larson
Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social Entertainer, opinionator, lover of pets. 
The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
Ed Balls @officialedballs.bsky.social Dad, cook, pianist, economist, Harvard, King's London, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, podcaster, retired dancer, former Cabinet minister, sometimes on TV & Radio
Aidan Oliver @aidanoliver.bsky.social Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
Sign up: http://wordsonmusic.substack.com
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
Jean Sibelius @jeansibelius.bsky.social The Life, Music and Times of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).
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
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
‼️ Urgent enquiry? Contact the MU at https://theMU.org/contact
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Anna Huntley @annahuntley.bsky.social 
Lisette Oropesa @lisetteoropesa.com Opera soprano 🎶 - vegan 🍎- runner 🏃- yogi 🙏
Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social Music critic, editor, programme note writer. Happy to be ambushed by cake. Best when caffeinated.
https://canzonetta.substack.com/
Ben Woodward @benwoodward1102.bsky.social Conductor, vocal coach
Artistic Director of @regentsopera.bsky.social
Jamie Barton @jbartonmezzo.bsky.social Proudly queer opera singer into drag queens, bluegrass, social justice, equality, and cats – especially her own, River! 😻
Lucy @lucyschaufer.bsky.social Performer | Producer | AD Wild Plum Arts | Educator
I’d rather create a MOVEMENT than build an EMPIRE. #connection #lovemusicbuyjam