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🎹 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
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
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
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
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.
Alison Mero @alisonmero.bsky.social Director of Clemson University Press. PhD in musicology. Big fan of university presses, classical music, kids, cats, and dinosaurs.
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Brian Lauritzen @brianlauritzen.bsky.social 3-8p weekdays on KUSC | nationally-syndicated host of LA Phil radio broadcasts | classical music enthusiast/advocate | opinions mine | he/him
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
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
Griffin Candey @griffincandey.bsky.social composer—Michigan boy—sentient cloud of cartoon noises—Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Tennessee Tech
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
comrade ella 🧚🏻♀️ @marzipanlord.bsky.social metropolitan sylph
Doug Shadle @dougshadle.bsky.social Musicologist 
dankettercello @danielketter.com co-director musicintheamericanwild.com | new music for cello students celloteachingrep.com | music theory nerd, new music enthusiast | he/him | www.danielketter.com | https://youtube.com/@danielkcello?si=Ktfo0sNnok85xJL
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/
Dalanie Harris 🤓💖 @dalanie.bsky.social Music, history, & Black culture enthusiast, door to door Stevie Wonder advocate, cohost of Classically Black Podcast, @ booksaboutmusic on Tiktok 📚
Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com Composer, citizen archaeologist, ethnically ambiguous Australian-American.
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
Elizabzth van Ofs @elizabethvanos.com 
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social they/them | composer | accordionist | electronicsist | professor | parent | autist
🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @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 🌉
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.
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.
Max Grafe @amagicreflexham.bsky.social Composer • Teacher • Racing • NJ • Anti-anti-modernist • he/him
https://composers.com/composers/max-grafe
Mario Godoy @godoymusic.com Composer (concert/film/games), Sound Designer, Educator, Saxophonist, Synth Nerd, Coffee Snob
Mostly posting about music, games, skateboarding
Oakland, CA
He/him
Mariogodoy.com
Haden Plouffe, composer/pianist/rambler @haydnpuff.bsky.social she/her
Pls commission me I write pretty music
Composer, pianist, musicologist, doing pre-production on a game called Beyonder Chronicles: Shadow of the Hero
music:
https://www.youtube.com/@hadenplouffe3976
random writing:
https://buttondown.com/HaydnPuff
Dr. Hyeonjin Park (they/them) @hyeonjin.bsky.social phd from ucla, researching monstrosity and identity formation in video game music/sound, with additional interests in animation and kr/jp pop cultures. also a voracious reader.
bitch-king of angmar (her) @wetropolitan.bsky.social 🗽soprano/kitchen witch/kvetch artist
www.zenopera.com
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
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
julianne @hoagietime.bsky.social music theory professor
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 🖤 🩶🤍💜
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.
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
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.
Kyra Davies @kyradavies.com 🎻, less than 1.4 * 10^-8% cesium
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
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
Symphony of the Dead @symphonyofthedead.bsky.social pianist, chamber musician, I like clouds
Sara van Os @saramcclarinet.bsky.social Writer - Horror for Weird and/or Gay Girls 🧟♀️📓
DECOMPOSITION BOOK OUT NOW
rep: Julie Flanagan at CAA
she/her 🌈🧡🤍🩷
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Arvo Färt @arvofart.bsky.social award-losing composer | lapsed saxophonist | please commission me to write a Hellraiser opera | he/him
https://linktr.ee/aidanramsay
VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag.bsky.social Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
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
Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social queer disabled feminist activist formerly known as 'the abortion musicologist' // teacher, writer, PhD candidate, abortion doula // floating btwn NYC & the Southeast // she & they
Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social Music theory professor and pianist in Louisville KY, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
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.
Anna Beer @annabeerauthor.bsky.social Author of 'Eve Bites Back', 'Sounds' and Oxford crime novels: 'Death of an Englishman' and coming soon 'An Inkling of Death' https://annabeerauthor.wixsite.com/mysite and https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/our-people/anna-beer/
Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
George Xiaoyuan Fu 付骁远 @eyepitydafu.bsky.social pianos
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
Mr. Goose @trevorwoggon.bsky.social Board certified shitposter
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
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.
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
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 Neher @lisaneher.bsky.social Portland's New Music Mezzo
Composer
Music artistry & business coach for singers & composers
President: New Wave Opera
Co-Founder: Raindrop New Music
David McMullin @mcmullin.bsky.social Composer of music in search of a spirit of wonder. Exploring here for creative community and conversation. (I'll get my news and outrage elsewhere.)
https://david-mcmullin.com
musicians.today/@mcmullin
David Jalbert @davidjalbert.bsky.social Pianist, uOttawa prof. Québécois who studied in the USA. Music, literature, tennis, tech, politics.
Siobhán Dougall @siobhandougall.com Mom, QLab developer, composer, recovering oboist. Queer, trans, disabled. After 4 years of dialysis, I am now a three-kidneyed organ hoarder!
Dr. Music Theory Augmented @musictheoryaug.bsky.social Music Theorologist™️ in the streets
Memelord in the sheets
I guess we’re all here to escape from the tweetz
Ann Moss @annmossvox.bsky.social Recording Artist | Chamber Musician | Champion of Living Composers | #Heldensoubrette | newest: NOW I AM | she/her
linktr.ee/annmossvox
Ben Phelps @thisisbenphelps.bsky.social Musician and self-declared public intellectual
AMS After Dark @amsafterdark.bsky.social Contemplating contemplating "Contemplating Music" since 2016
2023 program: bit.ly/amsad2023program
Alex Cowan @alexcowan.bsky.social Musicologist, UChicago. British/American. Guitar hoarder. Writing on music and eugenics. Ask me about my transatlantic accent.
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social Orchestral Subwoofer. Chicago. she/her
12tone @12tone.nebula.tv Something something music theory.
they/them
Cory Barger (she/her) @corybee.bsky.social Bassoonist. Certified cat lady. Lily livered bleeding heart liberal. Two-time jeopardy champ
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
Shana The Harpy! @shanahipharpy.bsky.social Harp wrangler, messy gardener, aspiring bee keeper, e-trike rider. The plucky 1/2 of the Chaski Flute & Harp Duo. Austin, Texas.
ChaskiMusic.com
Martin Smith @martinsmith.bsky.social Husband, father, violinist; leader of cirrusstringquartet.com; conductor of rorchestra.bsky.social, enfieldchamberorch.org.uk, Winchmore Strings and anyone else that'll have me. Member/Board member of londonmozartplayers.com. Makes decent coffee. He/him
Heather Winters @heatherwinters.bsky.social she/her
Probably playing a mournful solo while someone dies
Pfp: a white 45 year old woman getting dog kisses
Cf:reeds and reed tools
Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
Scott Gendel @scottgendel.bsky.social Composer, pianist, vocal coach, rock musician, tenor, general music nerd. Obsessed with cooking, exploring all kinds of music, my family, my cats, dumb jokes, compassion. He/Him.
Soup and sandwich mode Molly Narin-Sullivan @mollynarindashs.bsky.social Music, libraries, academic-ish; fountain pens and stationery; kinda crafty; beautiful, artful boudoir wear lover; Thai-American; sick of being sick; she/her.
Drew Swatosh @auralcomposting.bsky.social Composer, Vocalist, Songwriter, Poet, Advocate, Women's Soccer, Tech & Slow Fashion Enthusiast | #ActuallyAutistic | Co-Founder: @raindropnewmus.bsky.social | they/them | commissions open
linktr.ee/auralcomposting
pumpkin spice hannah @swordsoprano.bsky.social “They don’t know me, I know me.” -Isabela, Dragon Age 2
any pronouns, 20s, white, neurodivergent-performing-artist, Smithie ‘19, ✡️ supporting 🍉. always having elf emotions and opera opinions. pfp: @ovaettr.gay. header: taken by me at MCR Boston 9/7/2025
Jennifer Miller Hammel @jenmillerradio.bsky.social Program Host/Producer at Classical California, video game enthusiast, and singer of good things
henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social 🎼 free Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) scores
Because you've played enough Chopin already 🎹
henselpushers.org/links
guardian of Dishwasher cat 🐆🥣🍴🫧✨
Also henselfest.org 🦢
𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social Was @theresasmets at the X place. Old Brooklyn.
Choir conductor, utility soprano; Ph.D./MLIS Musicological wraith; Mets fan. Porch gardener. Birds. Old Hollywood. She/Her. ABOLISH ICE/DHS. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE
Essential Opera @essentialopera.bsky.social Indie opera run by maureenbattsoprano@bsky.social & erinsopran@bsky.social
Our debut album “Some of my Stories: The Operas of Monica Pearce” is out now on Leaf Music!
https://leaf-music.lnk.to/lm279
Ehler @ehler.bsky.social mrehler.com
Band director, tuba player, productivity tech nerd, Iowan, Lutheran
Ehler@musician.social on the other other other site.
Wrong and loud
Silvia Mantilla-Wright (with 70 alt accounts) @ssmw.bsky.social Quechua/Afroperuana PhD student at Uni of York in ludomusicology and musical empathy! I dip into death studies (pov: music), and EDI issues in research culture and practice. They/She🐱✨🇵🇪🏳️🌈 expect video games, music, clarinetting, memes, politics, academia.
Yvonne Frindle @frindley.bsky.social Harmonious wordsmith. Writer, editor, designer and speaker, specialising in classical music and dance. 🇦🇺👩🏻🎨🩰🇺🇦
Ben Geyer @bengeyer.bsky.social Music theorist, jazz musician, aspiring pop producer. Reformer of music curricula. Free textbook at bengeyer.com. Cooking & Mixology. Sports (Pats, #bbn, Canes); video games. Pioneer Valley.
Vaughan McAlley @mcalley.net.au Composer, singer, sound engineer. Fond of choral music, especially from the renaissance. “Geriatric” CF
Jason Heilman @jsheilman.bsky.social Musicology PhD turned classical radio host in Wisconsin.
Martin Andris @martinandris.bsky.social Music non-stop | Head of Media Relations & Press Spokesperson @elbphilharmonie.de and Laeiszhalle
Eva Meitner @evameitner.bsky.social conductor | pianist
female composers
📍Leipzig
www.eva-meitner.de