Kevin Laskey @klaskeymusic.bsky.social Composer, percussionist, and lover of megamixes. Teaching music theory at NYU Steinhardt.
Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Jeff Gavett @jeffgavett.bsky.social Baritone, composer, conductor, director of Ekmeles
Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/
Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://substack.com/@carolinefrmus
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social Musicologist @uniofoxford
Ismene Brown @ismeneb.bsky.social Soviet historian, dance critic, made theartsdesk.com, cuttings @ ismeneb.com, YT @balletlegendsinterviewed, researching E A Furtseva
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson @arniheimir.bsky.social Musicologist, author of "Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland" (SUNY Press, 2025). Senior Researcher, Reykjavík Academy. www.arniheimir.com
Anthony Friend @antoineami.bsky.social Clarinettist. Sometime organiser of events and writer on music.
Artistic Director, Wimbledon International Music Festival https://bsky.app/profile/wimbledonmusicfest.bsky.social
www.anthonyfriend.co.uk
Apolline Gouzi @apollinegz.bsky.social History of Music PhD @CambridgeUni 🚀• music festivals 🎶🎭 • France & regions • Postwar, Reconstruction • also: women musicians
Stories from the archive 📜🐀
https://cv.hal.science/apolline-gouzi
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Baruch College @baruch.cuny.edu A nationally recognized leader in higher education where excellence, opportunity, and impact meet in the heart of NYC.
Ph.D/D.M.A. Programs in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center @cunygcmusic.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the CUNY Graduate Center, Music Department.
CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social A graduate school of arts and sciences, The Graduate Center is a community of scholars dedicated to the idea that learning is a public good.
Charlotte Brooks🏳️🌈/夏黎 (夏洛特布魯克斯) @profbrooks.bsky.social Historian of in-between places; active voice extremist; lack of influencer. Author of some books about US, Chinese, and Asian American history. Newest: The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution
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
Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org A voice for the persecuted.
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/
Satori.lv @satorilv.bsky.social Interneta žurnāls par kultūru un sabiedrību
Music Journals (Taylor and Francis) @musicjournalstf.bsky.social Posting on behalf of Contemporary Music Review, Journal of New Music Research, Jazz Perspectives, Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, Journal of Musicological Research, and Ethnomusicology Forum.
Socials and links https://bento.me/musicjournal
Christopher Ballantine @chrisballantine.bsky.social Radical musicology. Books include Music and its Social Meanings | Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa | Twentieth Century Symphony | Living Together; Living Apart? Towards Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa. UKZN
Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social Writer on music for NYT Guardian Wire Private Eye and more. Digital Editor at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social
Email is hughmorris98@gmail.com
Niki Seth-Smith @nikisethsmith.bsky.social Editor of @newhumanist.bsky.social, journalist and fiction writer 🍐
Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.
Dr Christine Dysers @cdysers.bsky.social Musicologist focusing on contemporary music, repetitive aesthetics, politics, and the uncanny. Postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Department of Musicology.
Christopher Kimbell @kitkimbell.bsky.social Teacher and musicologist, specialising in Wagner, nationalism, and critical theory. My book on Wagner’s Meistersinger is available at tinyurl.com/3fmcsxyv
BerlinPhil @berliner-philharmoniker.de This is the Berliner Philharmoniker's official Bluesky profile.
Learn more about live streams, the orchestra and our current and future projects:
https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de
https://www.digitalconcerthall.com
linkin.bio/berlinerphilharmoniker
Philipp Bohnen @philippbohnen.bsky.social Music. Berliner Philharmoniker.
Sports.
Martin Andris @martinandris.bsky.social Music non-stop | Head of Media Relations & Press Spokesperson @elbphilharmonie.de and Laeiszhalle
Bernhard Neuhoff @bneuhoff.bsky.social Musikjournalist, Leiter Redaktion Klassik aktuell & Magazine BR-Klassik. Oper, Bücher, Politik & Geschichte.
Verkomponist Miika @verkomponist.bsky.social Composer|Researcher|Teachier|Performer
Experimental music theatre|Vocal music
www.linktr.ee/verkomponist
Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social Film & documentary composer | cellist | BAFTA Connect | 'Orchard Street: The Opera' | Bristol-based
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social Professor in Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Researcher, composer, violist, engineer, instrument designer.
Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory instrumentslab.org.
Co-founder and director of Bela.io.
Ligeti Quartet @ligetiquartet.com ligetiquartet.com
Louth Contemporary Music Society @eamonnquinn.bsky.social www.louthcms.org
Arlene Sierra @asie212.bsky.social Composer, Professor, London-based New Yorker
https://linktr.ee/asie212
Alan Geoffrey @alangeoffrey.bsky.social Culture editor in London. Proud owner of a Scottish terrier. Arsenal fan.
Bradley Hoover @drbradleyhoover.bsky.social Aesthetics, Theology, Philosophy, and Music History. Author of ‘The Aesthetic System of François Delsarte and Richard Wagner: Catholicism, Romanticism, and Ancient Music,’ Cambridge UP. April 2025. 🇨🇦
Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social Professor of Music, The Open University. Interested in music and Christianity in C18th-19th Britain, and Welsh music history. Co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge University Press). Organist. Crime fiction reader. Cricket watcher.
Dr Hannah Millington @hannahmillington.bsky.social Music historian and #EthelSmyth scholar working at TU Dublin and Chamber Choir Ireland. | Hon Sec of Society for Musicology in Ireland. | Shropshire Lass. Lover of nature. Devourer of books.
@nancyevans.bsky.social @nancyevans.bsky.social Director of Learning, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, passionate about children’s composing, creativity & pedagogy. Mum. Foodie. Happiest when walking in the countryside. From North Yorkshire, now in Brum. 🍉
Fiona Ross @fifiross.bsky.social Multi Award Winning Artist, Journalist, Founder of Women in Jazz Media and Creative Arts Education Specialist.
https://fionaross.co.uk/
Christine Ott @christine-ott.bsky.social ✨ Singing waves
Piano, ondes Martenot & more
~
linktr.ee/christineott
TubaNat @tubanat.bsky.social Nathaniel Daw | Music & Narrative Director @ Fuse, formerly Criterion | Tuba Enthusiast | Hockey Nut | Ganondorf/Daisy Main | Has Other Interests Also
Peter Peyman Farzinpour @peymanfarzinpour.bsky.social Peter Peyman Farzinpour is a conductor, composer, multimedia producer, & professor. He directs ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX and Sinfonietta Notturna, leads Farzinpour Creative Music & Multimedia Ventures, and conducts the Altschuler Summer Music Institute orchestra.
The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
Oxford University Press @oxunipress.bsky.social
@paulelie.bsky.social @paulelie.bsky.social
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life @boisicenter.bsky.social Since 1999, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College have been hosting lively events at the intersection of religion and American culture.
nanette @nanette.bsky.social a middle-aged librarian living on the flatlands of central Illinois
magnificent weirdo, guardian of the corn trophy, teller of stories
“songs person” at thebestthing.blog
not a professional account by any means, it gets weird in here
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Jürg Frey @juergfrey.bsky.social Composer
www.juergfrey.com
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
Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
Moë Faulkner @moefaulkner.bsky.social Music PR Consultant | London Prague | Working with Opera Rara, Czech Philharmonic, Animal Music and Germán Enrique Alcántara
Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social Pianist & Tastenterrorist
Gavin Dixon @saquabote.bsky.social Classical music writer and journalist. Reviews Editor of Gramophone.
Paul Gallagher music @paulgallaghermusic.bsky.social Contemporary classical music in just intonation by American composer Paul Gallagher (1953-2011). PaulGallaghercomposer.com
SoundCloud.com/paulgallaghercomposer
Boosey & Hawkes @booseyandhawkes.bsky.social Boosey & Hawkes, a BMG company, is the largest specialist classical music publishing company in the world.
Slavoj Žižek @slavojiek.bsky.social
Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Adam Schatz @landladyband.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/landladyland
Landlady / Japanese Breakfast / Neko Case / other stuff
Marc Ribot @marcribot.bsky.social I play guitar.
Nathan Shields @nathan-shields.bsky.social Composer and critic
Writing @nybooks.com, @thebaffler.com, and elsewhere
Faculty: St. John's College | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
https://nathan-shields.com
Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social International affairs journal, founded in 1914. Published by University of California Press. https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory
Franz Nicolay @franznicolay.bsky.social Music, writing, teaching: http://linktr.ee/franznicolay ||| PianoFighter.substack.com ||| To us, the beautiful!
Avant Music News @avantmusicnews.bsky.social
D. Edward Davis @warmsilence.bsky.social composer / educator / listener
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/
Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social The Ukrainian Institute London (UIL) is an independent charity that champions Ukrainian culture and shapes the conversation about Ukraine in the UK and beyond.
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Indiana University Press @iupress.bsky.social Founded in 1950, we are one of the largest public university presses and recognized as a leader in the humanities and social sciences. 📚
Anna Harwell Celenza @annacelenza.bsky.social Author & musicologist with strong interests in PB and YA literature, jazz, and American history. Professor at JHU (Writing Seminars) and Peabody Conservatory (Musicology).
Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, movie lover, part-time sewist.
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk "The leading international home of chamber music" (The Times) 💫
Find out more about us here ➡️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
Adriana Helbig @adahelbig.bsky.social Author, dean, musician
On Being with Krista Tippett @onbeing.bsky.social Wisdom to replenish & orient. Conversations to live by. Poetry, science, social healing, spiritual inquiry — 20 years of beloved, revelatory shows. https://linktr.ee/onbeing
Sara Jo Cohen @thunderrhoda.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic.
Rena Roussin @renaroussin.bsky.social doctoral candidate in musicology studying art music's historic and contemporary positionalities and relationships to social justice. she/her. Métis and settler.
Samantha Bassler @sammee42.bsky.social she/they 🏳️🌈(Bisexual) & Jewish Humanist.
Disability Justice Activist with Fibro, AuDHD, and c-PTSD. Musicologist & Music Theorist: early music, disability, trauma. Music Educator & Musician. Writer & Author. Academic, Indexer & Entrepreneur.
Kate Hamori @hamori.bsky.social musicologist/music librarian. UCLA.
Music Research Annual @mrajournal.bsky.social Music Research Annual is an open-access journal devoted to review essays that span the full breadth of music research across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Published by @mmap.bsky.social
https://musicresearchannual.org
Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social professor at umass.edu | co-host of haveyouheardpodcast.com | director of umass.edu/education/organizations/center-education-policy
previous book: offthemarkbook.com | latest book: educationwarsbook.com | next book: in progress.
Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan and Director of University of Michigan Press. Opinions my own. Cats shown also their own animals.
Joan Titus @joantitus.bsky.social Studies music, film, visual arts, and cultural politics across the world, especially in US and Eastern Europe. Professor of musicology, ethnomusicology, and gender and sexuality studies at UNC Greensboro. www.joantitus.com
Rachel Campbell @drrmcampbell.bsky.social Lecturer in Musicology at University of Sydney. New music fan. Researching musical “Primitivism”. Living on Darkinjung land. Views my own.
Theodora Dragostinova @theodorad.bsky.social Historian & professor @Ohio State.
Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children.
2025 ACLS Fellow.
Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social Official journal for the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
https://academic.oup.com/dh
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social pianist, composer, writer
Lucy Ash @lucyaash.bsky.social Foreign affairs broadcaster and author
BBC presenter
Russia / Ukraine / Orthodox Church expert
The Baton and The Cross is now in paperback https://www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the-baton-and-the-cross-3/
lucyashjournalism.com
Marina Frolova-Walker @mfwalker.bsky.social
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social For more information visit our website www.basees.org
Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social Peripheral Histories? is a collaborative digital history project focused on peoples and regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have been perceived as geographically, politically, or culturally “peripheral"
https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/
Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre at the University of Cambridge. Advancing new approaches to teaching and researching Ukraine since 2008.
www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org
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