Early Music Forum Scotland @emfscotland.bsky.social The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
Chatham Baroque @chathambaroque.bsky.social Experience the joy, passion, and intensity of music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Early Classical periods and more through vivid and compelling programs by the genre’s very best artists at some of the most amazing venues across Pittsburgh.
The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social Music for the viola da gamba - acoustic & electric. Runner, swimmer, mother + sometime composer. Sydney, Australia, but performing across the globe. Both groups founded by me, Jenny Eriksson.
Links - https://linktr.ee/TheMaraisProjectElysianFields
Spiritato @spiritato.bsky.social Period instrument ensemble. We play music with guts!
Michael Winter @michaelwinter99.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle University. Studying 15th and 16th Century English choral music, reconstruction, and fragmentary music manuscripts.
David Simmons Wood @voxprincipalis.bsky.social Early music/traditional music specialist | collegiate educator | non-profit admin
Kaarina Kilpiö @kilpkaa.eurosky.social Social historian of music, University lecturer at taideyliopisto.bsky.social.
Interested in social debate.
Bookworm. Mom of 2 (+2 rescue dogs).
Tending to a 1950s house and garden.
everyday life & functional music – music in propaganda – film music
George Clifford @georgelclifford.bsky.social Professional baroque violinist and amateur choral singer from Sussex, England.
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com #DoubleBass #Baryton & #ViolaDaGamba | Founder Midweſt415 | Perf. Black Tulip, ViolMedium, et al | Fac. Valparaiso University, Elgin Community College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, et al https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna
David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social Classical Music host with a face for radio.
CKCU-FM 93.1, Ottawa, “Music for a While” (https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/info.html)
"Classical Muse" for other stations and YouTube
Ex CBC Radio
Always time for tea.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
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
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
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social Scot in England; trombones, ancient and modern; languages, mainly European; woke.
EarlyMusicNewsOrg @earlymusicnewsorg.bsky.social EarlyMusicNews.Org's mission is to help popularize and disseminate news of the "Early Music"/HIP (Historically Informed Performance) genre on an international scale.
William Whitehead @williamwhitehead.bsky.social Musician | Real Tennis Player | Forgetter of Hotel Room Numbers
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social Leading London chamber choir directed by Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social. Latest album 'Every Living Creature: choral music by Kenneth Leighton' released by SOMM Recordings.
https://www.londinium-voices.org.uk
Trianon Music Group @trianonmusicgroup.bsky.social Trianon Music Group orchestra and choir based in Ipswich. Three major concerts a year + community concerts across Suffolk. Orchestra est 1959, and choir in 1963.
www.tmg.org.uk
#trianonmusicgroup #orchestra #choir #classicalmusic
Registered Charity 276715
John Rutter @johnrutter.bsky.social Composer and conductor. Posts by the team unless signed JR.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account of the society and Sixteenth Century Journal. #SCSC2026 Conference will meet in Chicago.
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social University of Exeter Centre for Early Modern Studies - a place for interdisciplinary exchange among staff and students and engagement with the wider academic world.
(Posts by Lucy Hurst).
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Dr Bram van Leuveren (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺/𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮) @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social Assistant Professor in early modern art history @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social • Out now with Brill: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • France and the Netherlands • Diplomacy, ritual, ephemeral arts • https://linktr.ee/bramvanleuveren
Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italy and other things; latest book: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy; Australian football tragic.
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social He/him Historic Kitchens Manager and experimental historian by day...tiresome lay-about by day also.
All views own, yada yada yada. Now formally considered neuro spicy!
No expectation of mutual following.
Helene Harrison MA MSc @tudorblogger.bsky.social Tudor Historian.
Writer behind TudorBlogger and HeleneReads.
Working at Northumbria University Library.
Books:
• Elizabethan Rebellions (2023)
• Tudor Executions (2024)
• The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn (2025)
• Henry VIII's Quest for an Heir (2026)
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Katie De La Matter @katiedlm.bsky.social Harpsichordist 🔹conductor 🔹researcher
Lover of manyyy things. Magpie of @ETFugit (twitter)
She/her | Insta/Tiktok: @harpsikat 
La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social 🔥British ambassadors for Vivaldi & Italian baroque music
🎵'They really put the rock into baroque' @classicfm
💿 Exclusive content over on Patreon!
The Renaissance Singers @renaissancesingers.bsky.social Leading amateur chamber choir specialising in Renaissance sacred music. Musical Director: David Allinson. www.renaissancesingers.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
Guy James @countertenorism.bsky.social 1st Countertenor @ The Gesualdo Six. Sometime chemist and writer. Director of Chapel Perilous. Twitter exile @Gletara.
Joachim Kurz (aka Mietgeist) @mietgeist.bsky.social Gründer und Chefredakteur Kino-Zeit / Kurator Kasseler Dokfest / Künstlerischer Leiter Klang/Bild - Festival für Musikfilm
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🇬🇧
@ericwhitacre.bsky.social @ericwhitacre.bsky.social 
Ben England BEM @benenglandbem.bsky.social Musical Director of Choir of the Earth, Founder of Homechoir and Gamechoir, Principal of Earth Choir Academy, Conductor of Bristol Cabot Choir. Award-winning educator and conductor. Proud Dad, gamer and massive sci-fi geek.
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!
John La Bouchardiere @johnlabouchardiere.bsky.social Director
Ars Mvsica @arsmvsica.bsky.social Coro de cámara dedicado a la interpretación de Música Antigua. Tenemos nuestra sede en Murcia (España)
NMC Recordings @nmcrecordings.bsky.social NMC Recordings is an award-winning record label and charity supporting new music from Britain and Ireland.
Recipient of the RPS Gamechanger Award 2025
https://linktr.ee/nmcrecordings
Mailing list: https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/about-us/mailing-list
Helen Murray @elthamurray.bsky.social Senior Scheduling Coordinator at BBC Radio 3, choral singer, toddler mum, member of folk band Solebound https://soundcloud.com/solebound
FKA Helen Cocks
Alexander Binns @alexanderbinns.bsky.social Director of Music at Derby Cathedral. Organist, Conductor, Musician
Aaron @ajshilson.bsky.social Assistant Director of Music, Llandaff Cathedral
Casual gamer, aspiring DM, slow reader, infrequent poster
Donna McKevitt @donnamckevittmusic.bsky.social Film:
#TheFold #Orpheus #LosingGrace
Documentary: #TheMountainWithinMe #MyNameIsAlfredHitchcock #TheStoryofLooking
Dance:
#Sadler’sWells #TheRoyalOperaHouse
Concert:
#TheGesualdoSix #TheOraSingers #TheMarianConsort #Tenebrae #Voces8 #Apollo5
The Music Summer School and Festival @summerschool.bsky.social The Music Summer School and Festival, features courses in choral singing, vocal ensembles, orchestral music, opera, bands, song writing and much more! Talks and concerts combine with teaching to make a school by day and festival by night. www.mssf.org.uk
Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖
🎻 Event listings | festivals | artists | features
💡 A Continuo Foundation initiative
🔗 https://www.continuoconnect.com
Richard Heason @rgwh.bsky.social Music and Culture Projects - ‘The Creatively Curious’ - ‘The Summer School Foundation’
Ruth Thorpe @ruth.medsky.social European music-loving medic
🎶 Alto in nonsuchsingers.org.uk and temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk
🩺 #MedSky Neurology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Law.
Refugees welcome. She/her.
Charlotte @biademedici.bsky.social Lawyer 9-5. Soprano the rest of the time. she/her/elle
(Mostly a backup account right now!)
Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social Composer. Cricketer. Third thing.
https://linktr.ee/bernardhughes
Adam Hilton @handle.invalid Classical musician - baritone and conductor - ahilton.com
Imperial College Chamber Choir @icchamberchoir.bsky.social The chamber choir of Imperial College London. MD Patrick Allies - @patrickallies.bsky.social.
https://linkin.bio/icchamberchoir/?fbclid=PAAaaTKuvJf4PkX3MoWkKtnIGk6HbTSic2MOkzAdPsKH_sYVpENSET
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
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble @ecse1610.bsky.social Leading UK-based period instrument ensemble with a host of recordings and recitals to our name.
www.ecse.co.uk 
Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social Early music group for the discovery and performance of music by and for women. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/musicasecreta Support: http://musicasecreta.org/support-us 💐 Listen: http://spoti.fi/3NHluOe
Allen Garvin @allengarvin.bsky.social Old Unix guy, viol player, cat spoiler, Cisco employee. See https://dfwviols.com for my cinquecento music (mostly madrigali) transcriptions.
I can't take it anymore: I block antisemites.
Eric Thomas @ericlute.bsky.social Lutenist, Musicologist, PhD
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Katie Bank @spparkle.bsky.social music + art in early modern England | Uni Bham | fa la la | canbeautysavetheworld.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | creative industries | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
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.
Dr(!?!?) Caro @itscaro.bsky.social i like old music, book history, English nuns, & theories on time, space, and gender 💒🎶💖hawt early modernist specialising in music, AHRC post-doc on the ‘Music Heritage and Place’ project (Royal Holloway/ Newcastle University)📚 they/them
Jeffrey Dean @jeffreyjdean.bsky.social Music historian (15th–16th centuries), editor/book-designer/typesetter, Quaker; foreign-born naturalized British citizen; ally. He/him/his
NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or …
Fediverse: @JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music.
newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com
website: https://helendecruz.net/
My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
~Howard Nemerov
#ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm #poetry #jazz
Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social Musicologist & cultural historian, Royal Northern College of Music | Fellow, Royal Historical Society | Author, ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (CUP) | Current project: 'The Cambridge History of German Opera to the Early Nineteenth Century'
Mark Shepheard @shepm.bsky.social Art historian working on musicians, artists & portraiture: mainly Italian & 17-18C. Producer of the Early Music Experience for 3MBS Melbourne: https://omny.fm/shows/the-early-music-experience/playlists/podcast
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
Ellie Chan @elliechan.bsky.social Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
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.
Edward Edgcumbe @gumbe.bsky.social Head of Artistic Planning & Production,
BBC Philharmonic
www.edwardedgcumbe.com
BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social ‘Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350’, an ERC Consolidator Grant project @MaynoothUni (PI: Prof. Karen Desmond) https://ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/
Dr Micah Mackay @micahmackay.bsky.social Writer and Historian ✍️
Dr of Carols (yes, really) 🎓
Arts Development & Cultural Advocate🎭
Currently writing about how we can transform arts funding ✨
DORMEME @dormeme16.bsky.social Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe. Funding Body: UKRI ERC.
Website: https://t.co/1fc8o0NlOb 
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat
Pasadena CA & Washington DC
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Jonathan Morgan @jonathanmorgan2.bsky.social Baroque flute, Balinese Gamelan, Sackbut, food, books
@musicadeidonum.bsky.social @musicadeidonum.bsky.social - A Adam Knight Gilbert @akgilbert.bsky.social Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
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
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses