Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
Katy Henriksen @soundoffkaty.bsky.social culture obsessed journalist :: publicist at Riot Act Media :: live music producer
humanity is not an algorithm /// art is labor /// trans lives matter
Host of Sound Off (((on music challenging the status quo))) 🎧 www.katyhenriksen.com
Sarah Kirkland Snider @sksnider.bsky.social Composer. Co-Artistic Director, New Amsterdam Records. Artist Ambassador, Creatives Care. Mentor, supporter, resister. She/her.
Emily E Hogstad @song-of-lark.bsky.social Professional amateur classical music writer - lapsed violinist, violist - WI-based - queer Episcopal girl interested in the history of the girls & gays in classical music - www.songofthelarkblog.com - <3
Tiffany @carillonista.bsky.social carillonist, musicologist, environmental restorationist, wanderist
Andree-Ann Deschenes @aadpiano.bsky.social Pianist.
Check out my new album “Wanderings”!
Holly Mulcahy @hollymulcahy.bsky.social Orchestra Audience Builder; Soloist; Hiker
Matthew Shadle @matthewshadle.bsky.social Theologian, ethicist, higher ed administrator. USCCB Representative to National Council of Churches Faith and Order Convening Tables. Interrupting Capitalism (2018). The Origins of War (2011).
Leah Branstetter @leahbranstetter.bsky.social Arts + digital things. PhD in musicology (womeninrockproject.org) and knitter/runner/reader.
Elisabeth Treydte @etreydte.bsky.social (New) Music & Gender | researcher @ Folkwang Uni der Künste Essen | @mappingmetoomusic.bsky.social | Fokusgruppe Frau* und Musik im Unterricht | science to public | mum² | she/her
Neues Buch zu #MeToo und Musik: https://urlz.fr/uU1V
Eva Meitner @evameitner.bsky.social conductor | pianist
female composers
📍Leipzig
www.eva-meitner.de 
Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social Writer | Presenter | Historian
I write about music, women's history & cultural history.
QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter
Substack: http://leahbroad.substack.com
Website: http://leahbroad.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahbroad
The Boghouse @theboghouse.bsky.social A podcast about the time Matt and Melissa bought a magic theater from a pedophile, discovered treasure, and became accidental amateur archaeologists.
Hilary Poriss @hilaryporiss.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Northeastern University. Scholar of #opera and #divas. Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (OUP 2021). I also make a mean chocolate chip cookie.
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Verismo • Classical Music PR @verismocomm.com Amplifying the authentic voices of women, queer folks, and people of color in classical music since 2013. 📣
Artists • Projects • Organizations
Amsterdam • NYC
verismopr.com
Lisa Cooper Vest @paniliso.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at USC
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
Derek Krissoff @derekkrissoff.bsky.social Publishing worker in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress.bsky.social and @ksupress.bsky.social. Email me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com. More at derekkrissoff.com and derekkrissoff.substack.com.
Elizabeth Keenan @elizabethkeenan.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Former real estate agent. Former ethnomusicologist. 
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- D David Weininger @davidweininger.bsky.social Writer on music
Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.
dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨
music/cultural historian at the University of Florida🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉
she/her 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
Kerry O’Brien @kerryob.bsky.social Writer and musicologist, teaching at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-minimalism/paper
Andrew Dell'Antonio @dellantonio.bsky.social ADHD music scholar at U TX Austin - #UDL - #Neurodiversity - #Accessibility
he/him/his
https://adellantonio.com
https://sites.utexas.edu/rigorouslycompassionate/
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Alison Mero @alisonmero.bsky.social Director of Clemson University Press. PhD in musicology. Big fan of university presses, classical music, kids, cats, and dinosaurs.
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
Cristina Fava @cristina4.bsky.social Musicologist, author of https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83ces9ph9780252045714
julianne @hoagietime.bsky.social music theory professor
Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social professor of musicology working in musicology, dance history, and VERY early music. Cheerleader for the Humanities at the University of Dayton. he/him ✡️ צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף
Melinda Massie @melindamassie.bsky.social Standardized Patient & performer. I like to drink coffee and crochet while watching cult documentaries. Enjoy cursing, indulgent food, and champagne.
renata 🎹 @natayazhi.bsky.social Diné musicologist, pianist, writer, chemist 🏜 Host of American Classical Voices on 95.5 KHFM
PhD Student in Ethnomusicology @ Columbia U
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)
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social Cowardice costs more than courage does.
"Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?" --Luthen Rael
https://linktr.ee/drchrissmith
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com Music theory prof, timbre, the Yamaha DX7, 80s, pop music, teaching, cats, food, crosswords, complaining about NYT Spelling Bee, knitting. DC area. she/her
Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social Music theorist, ass prof @UMN music. Public music theory, popular music, telling it like it is.
she/her
Re-Tiredprof @re-tiredprof.bsky.social Retired
Cellist
Cancer survivor
Sleepy
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social musicologist at the University of Delaware, citizen of West Philly.
Current:
•McCarthyism in the Music Industry, 1945-1960
•Performance and History in the Semiquincentennial
Past:
•What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
brainyviolinist, PhD 🎞️🎻🐈 @brainyviolinist.bsky.social 21c Television Musical Series Scholar/Film+Television Musicologist • University of Cincinnati-CCM ‘23 • Penn State '15 • Syracuse University '17 • she/her/她/sí • Cat parent
Natasha Gauthier, Destiny's Auntie @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social Canadian in #Cymru. Music journalist and public servant. MA Political Communication @cardiffuni. Late-blooming poet. Runs Tiger Bay Poetry in Cardiff.
Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social Game audio professor and radio host (Monday 7:00 PM, wkar.org) at Michigan State. Musicology via game studies. Go green! Thompson.RyanC@gmail.com
Watch me and my best friends stream Thursday evenings 9-11 PM Eastern at Twitch.tv/BardicKnowledge
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Megan MacDonald @cmeganmac.bsky.social Musicologist, Twin Mom, ED of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Ph(Dana) the Musicologess @musicologess.bsky.social Ph.D (Ludomusicology & Disability Studies), Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, Game Sound Con Advisory Board (Game Audio Studies Track), NACVGM programming committee, freelance violinist, she/her.
Andrea Fowler @andreafowler13.bsky.social UW-Madison. St. Louis and #LFC. Wife to Brad. Parent of a cool human. Views are mine. Looking for ways to use my musicology degrees while working in administration.
🌩️👀 aY9HAsMCBt96
Alex Cowan @alexcowan.bsky.social Musicologist, UChicago. British/American. Guitar hoarder. Writing on music and eugenics. Ask me about my transatlantic accent.
Carrie @carrieat.bsky.social 
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
Colleen Wheelahan @colleenphelps.bsky.social Host: AM on SiriusXM Symphony Hall
Plus: WUOL Evening Classics
Substack: Classically Colleen
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com Composer, citizen archaeologist, ethnically ambiguous Australian-American.
Avalon Zoe (A.Z.) Madonna @knitandlisten.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood music writer. I lost on Jeopardy. I smell in color, and am easily distracted by cats.
Jen Wang @jenwang.com SoCal. Composer, ED of People Inside Electronics, choral singer, amateur viola da gamba & banjo player, mapo tofu enthusiast. No TERFs. She/her.
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
Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social Intercultural & Southeast Asian Music Researcher, Composer, Educator. Founder Saw Peep Intercultural Orchestra. Host of BBC "World of Classical." he/him 🖤 🩶🤍💜
Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her
Website: sharonsu.com
Biweekly newsletter: https://buttondown.com/doodlyroses
One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social