Gerald Cohen @geraldcohenmusic.bsky.social 
Gail Boyd @gailboyd.bsky.social Manager of Jazz Artists. Entertainment Lawyer. Jazz Lover. Creator of Alternative Venues for Jazz.
Represents John Clayton, Don Braden, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orch. Mark Ruffin, Angie Wells, Karrin Allyson and dancer/choreographer Jade
Solomon Curtis
Opera Innovation @operainnovation.bsky.social Where #opera meets tech, brand, culture & global innovation. 🌐 Visit operainnovation.com ✨ #businessofopera #opera2point0 #operainnovation
Janet Horvath @cellostillsings.bsky.social Writer. Cellist and musician. Storyteller and speaker. Social justice and climate. Art and culture. Associate principal cello Minnesota Orchestra 1980-2012. Author “The Cello Still Sings” “Playing (less) Hurt”
Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social Pianist & Tastenterrorist
Timothy McAllister, saxophone @mcallistersax.bsky.social Saxophone Soloist || PRISM Quartet || Professor 🎷U. Michigan
Booking Inquiries: Constance Chiu, cchiu@opus3artists.com
www.timothymcallister.com
www.prismquartet.com
New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social Independent NYC creative music recording label
@danlippel.bsky.social @danlippel.bsky.social 
Alex Shapiro @alexshapiro.bsky.social Composer, creator advocate, and Chief Officer of my company's Litter Box, Bird Feeder, and Reptile Cage Maintenance Department.
Elisabeth Vincentelli @evincentelli.bsky.social Bylines: The New York Times, The Washington Post and more.
Co-host Marks & Vincentelli podcast.
Latest book: "The Art and Making of Arcane"
elisabeth@evincentelli.com
Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social Writer. Mezzo. Music historian.
Author of MADAME COMPOSER: The Virtuosic Genius of Clara Schumann. Out Sept. 29. Preorder link is here--
https://linktr.ee/sarahfritzwritr
she/her
Miriam Endersby @miriamendersby.bsky.social Soprano, linguist, houseplant nerd ✨
She/lei/elle/sie 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🏳️🌈
Mod of the Opera Feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tarr7xdvnsp7bn4fw4bplikg/feed/aaabpau6tq5qu
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social Music critic, editor, programme note writer. Happy to be ambushed by cake. Best when caffeinated.
https://canzonetta.substack.com/
New World Records @newworlddram.bsky.social New World Records / Recorded Anthology of American Music. Our mission is to record the music of under-represented American composers -- newworldrecords.org
Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social 
Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com An oasis of artistic excitement (Boston Globe), featuring contemporary classical, jazz, Americana, popular, world, and music theatre.
Avalon Zoe (A.Z.) Madonna @knitandlisten.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood music writer. I lost on Jeopardy. 
Doug Perry @drumultima.com Percussionist in Real Life and Video Games ▪️ Heard in Star Wars Outlaws, Celeste, and Helldivers 2 ▪️ DiscoCactus Viber ▪️vgmtogether co-director ▪️ Mewtwo fanatic ▪️ he/him ▪️ 🖤🤍💜🏳️🌈▪️pfp: @michaeldink.bsky.social
Nathan Cone @nathancone.bsky.social Curator of Cinema Tuesdays series; VP Programming at TPR; Disneyphile.
Tim Eby @timjeby.bsky.social Nonprofit leader and advocate for children with disabilities. Always looking around the corner. Public radio refugee. STL. You should also follow @sef-stl.bsky.social
Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social Exec culture and books editor of The Times 
Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social pianist, composer, writer
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Oscar Bettison @oscarbettison.bsky.social Composer, Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Fulham fan. He/Him/His. (Views are my own) 
Karl Henning @karlhenning.bsky.social Composer and Clarinetist in Boston
Mike @professorberry.bsky.social Orchestra teacher, music theorist, bassist
"Listening to Rap" (2e) and "Rap as Antiracist Pedagogy" both coming from Routledge in 2027.
https://www.routledge.com/Rap-as-Antiracist-Pedagogy/Berry/p/book/9781032979670
michaelberrymusic.com
Patricia Wallinga, famous MiG insulter @pwallinga.bsky.social Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense. Adequate approximation of a teacher, if you squint | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
Jeff Gavett @jeffgavett.bsky.social Baritone, composer, conductor, director of Ekmeles
Lucy @lucyviolin.bsky.social Violinist. New music performer and advocate. 
Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social musician, arts administrator; Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
"Fancy with an element of surprise" — @dalanie.bsky.social
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
Michel van der Aa @vanderaa.bsky.social composer | director
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social I make music and help others make the music they want to make. Composer, co-AD of New Amsterdam Records. Western MA based. He/him. Pic drawn by my now-11yo. None of us are free until all of us are free.
Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
https://linktr.ee/aishaharris
ActiveCultures @activecultures.bsky.social Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE
IG @activecultures
Also me (w/ others):
@NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC
Representing no one but me
Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com Composer-Ringleader • darcyjamesargue.com • With Every Breath I Take out now on Nonesuch Records
Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social Writing and talking about music. Forever listening.
WRTI, NPR, formerly NYT. Author of a Substack newsletter, The Gig, and a book called 'Playing Changes: Jazz For the New Century.' 
Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social Words & Music | gabrielkahane.substack.com |
Magnificent Bird out now on Nonesuch | gabrielkahane.bandcamp.com | Creative Chair, Oregon Symphony | Portland, OR
Rob Deemer @robdeemer.bsky.social Composition professor & Chair of Theatre & Dance at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)
Susan Brodie @susanbrodie.bsky.social Opera, food, political outrage, cats. Working on my homemade pizza game. Trying to keep Bianca in check. I vet (eventually) before following back.
Doug Shadle @dougshadle.bsky.social Musicologist - D David Weininger @davidweininger.bsky.social Writer on music
Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social Author, Journalist, Critic, Filmmaker.
Books: “Jazz from Detroit”; “Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.”
Film: “The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit.”
Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter/critic, 1995-2016
Ljova @ljovadotcom.bsky.social Ljova - composer; fadolínist, violist, arranger. One third of Trio Fadolín. Dad, Husband, Son. Representing the Upper West Side of Manhattan
also on Mastodon as ljovadotcom@zirk.us
Site: https://Ljova.com
Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social Writer | editor | more-than-decent cook. Where: The Strad (London), WRTI (Philadelphia). Music | architecture | art + design + photography | theater + film | journalism | science | pro-public transit
Photo: Luis Barragán, Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico
Alarm Will Sound @alarmwillsound.bsky.social "The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The New York Times 
Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: davidmandl.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social Associate Editor and Lead Critic, Washington Classical Review; Founder of Ionarts; Ph.D. in Historical Musicology; Classical Music Fiend; Opera Addict; Baroqueux agréable and Public Musicologist (all views expressed are my own, not those of my employers)
Jason Eckardt @jasoneckardt.bsky.social Writes music once described as "hostile to consumers." 
inti figgis-vizueta @inticomposes.bsky.social composer | 2-spirit | she/her | Andina
Mona Seghatoleslami @monaradio.bsky.social Bach to Bach hits, bikes, books, etc. Rochester, NY 🎶
Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social Writer, speaker, journalism prof Morgan State. She/her. Black, Jewish, Portuguese. Living on Piscataway land. Pre-order my book! https://tinyurl.com/bd96yt7z
Press: ashley@triple7pr.com
Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social Only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT; "Minimalist Music," "Miles Davis' Bitches Brew," Grove Dictionary, Bandcamp, LoC, &c. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com
venmo.com/George-Grella
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Matthew Guerrieri @sohothedog.bsky.social Composer, pianist, writer. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. He/him.
Armando Bayolo @armandobayolo.bsky.social St. Louis based Puerto Rican composer/conductor in the diaspora. Lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. All opinions my own. Atheist. Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. he/him
www.armandobayolo.com No DMs w/o permission.
Aaron A. Dalton @aaronadalton.bsky.social sound designer 🎙️mixer🎚️producer 🔊 fmr: intoamericapod nbcnews msnbc podcasts 🔈 WNYC/WQXR/ NakedSongbook 🎧 arts lover, occasional Southerner
aaronadalton.com
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
ClassicalCritic @classicalcritic.bsky.social Roving Classical Critic-at-Large & Translator. Opinions are my own - or stolen.
https://ionarts.blogspot.com/search/label/jfl
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/
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AnEarful @anearful.bsky.social Music obsessive, deeply engaged with an omnivorous array of sound. Keep up with it all, including the Discover Music podcast, at my Linktree: linktr.ee/anearful (He/Him)
Ben Gambuzza @pianoman1.bsky.social https://open.substack.com/pub/freewheeler
Yvonne Frindle @frindley.bsky.social Harmonious wordsmith. Writer, editor, designer and speaker, specialising in classical music and dance. 🇦🇺👩🏻🎨🩰🇺🇦
Anastasia Tsioulcas @anastasiat.bsky.social Knight-Wallace Fellow at UMichigan 24-25. Culture correspondent at NPR, music critic at the New York Times. ah-nah-STAH-zee-ah tsee-OOL-kahs/Αναστασία Τσιούλκα(ς)/اناستازيا تسيولكاس
Kamala Sankaram @kamalasankaram.bsky.social Composer, vocalist, nerd- I write operas and make soundscapes, interested in XR, obsessed with my cats and houseplants
Ted Gioia @tedgioia.bsky.social Ted Gioia is author of 12 books, including The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. His newsletter is The Honest Broker (www.honest-broker.com)
Otis Hart @spotieotis.bsky.social NPR Music
Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social Proud papa. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social senior copywriter. Former arts journalist & culture editor. New music on NYC stages and on record: https://nightafternight.substack.com [he/him/his]