Paul Carr @organistpaul.bsky.social Organist | Recitalist | Choral Director | Accompanist | Birmingham UK | paulcarr.co.uk
Peter Sheppard Skaerved @psskaervedviolin.bsky.social Violinist
Stefan Schwarz @steschwarz.bsky.social Translator and Language Consultant | Concert Organiser | Reviewer (MusicWeb International)| Label Manager and Producer (JUBALmusic)
Simon Toyne @sgtoyne.bsky.social Executive Director of Music, David Ross Education Trust; Director, Rodolfus Choral Courses; Music Director, Northampton Bach Choir
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Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
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
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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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/ 
Christian Hoskins @aquilanebula.bsky.social Public transport specialist, reviewer for Gramophone, occasional traveller & photographer.
Petroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Jasper Dommett @jasperdommett.bsky.social PhD Composer at the Royal College of Music | Upcoming Work with Hebrides Ensemble, Buxton International Festival, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & BBC Radio 3
https://hopp.bio/jasper-dommett
Dr Steven Berryman @stevenberryman.bsky.social Past President of the Chartered College of Teaching, Senior Deputy Head at Sir William Perkins’s School - more at www.steven-Berryman.com - FCCT CTeach
Sarah Playfair @splayfair.bsky.social Freelance opera casting director
Aidan Oliver @aidanoliver.bsky.social Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Ruth Elleson @ruthelleson.bsky.social Church/choral musician (alto), massive opera nerd, surtitle operator, and project planner working in public transport. Idiots not tolerated. She/her.
Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social conductor | head coach @ National Opera Studio | keyboard & continuo | tenor @stileantico.co.uk | dad | cyclist | cricket tragic | maker of lists
www.andrewgriffiths.info
Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel
In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com Memes, merch, music, and publishing.
Est. 2020.
quiresandplaces.com
Posts by @voxpopple.bsky.social
Stuart MacRae @stuartmacrae.bsky.social Composer. Operas (Anthropocene/The Devil Inside)
orchestral | chamber | vocal
http://linktr.ee/stuartmacrae
Support and more via Music Patron: https://musicpatron.com/r/c/85
The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com Official, um, "Sky"(?) of www.the-wagnerian.com"
Here, Time becomes Space
Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social Music critic, editor, programme note writer. Happy to be ambushed by cake. Best when caffeinated.
https://canzonetta.substack.com/
Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
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London Youth Choirs @londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social Our aim is to shape the lives and futures of thousands of young singers in London through the power and shared joy of singing.
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social
Views my own.
mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg @elbphilharmonie.de 
theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social The UK's only trade union for musicians
A community 36,500 strong
‼️ Urgent enquiry? Contact the MU at https://theMU.org/contact
🎨 Cover art by Malini Chakrabarty
Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social Composer. Cricketer. Third thing.
https://linktr.ee/bernardhughes
Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social Exec culture and books editor of The Times 
Héloïse Werner @heloisewerner.bsky.social Soprano & Composer - Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall - singer in The Hermes Experiment
Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social Film & documentary composer | cellist | BAFTA Connect | 'Orchard Street: The Opera' | Bristol-based
Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social Librettist & lyricist. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner). Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Opinions own. She/her. ✍🏼👩🏻💻🎶
Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social Bluesky thinking on new song. Performing & promoting new song since 2013. The Living Songs Series - a collection of songs composed post 2000, curated by me, Jessica Summers
http://www.livingsongs.co.uk/
Banks Music Publications @banksmusic.bsky.social Specialist publisher and supplier of choral and organ music.
www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk
Matthew Vest @noiselibrarian.bsky.social Music librarian. Making noise about new music, open access, social justice and higher education. General Editor, Contemporary Music Score Collection.
The Brook Street Band @brookstreetband.bsky.social Where Handel lives! Award-winning period instrument chamber music group. Handel-lovers and specialists. Creators of the love:Handel festival.
Frances M Lynch @francesmlynch.bsky.social Singer, Composer, Director, promotes #WomenInSTEAMM and Artistic Director of ELECTRIC VOICE THEATRE https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/
Archiv Frau und Musik @archivfraumusik.bsky.social The biggest and oldest archive about women composers and conductors. More than 32,000 media units of more than 2,200 women composers. Located in Frankfurt. Represented by @donauschwalbe.bsky.social | RIP @gitarra 🕯
#womencomposers
www.archiv-frau-musik.de
Doug Shadle @dougshadle.bsky.social Musicologist 
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
Susanne Wosnitzka 🧃 @donauschwalbe.bsky.social M. A. musicologist specialised in
women composers | Augsburg's history | herstory | German newspapers 18th/19th century with feminist treasures | author "Femmes" & "Fortissima!" with SONY cellist Raphaela Gromes | enragiert
📘💿
www.susanne-wosnitzka.de
🎹 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
Erica Sipes @ericaannsipes.com A musician with an addiction to helping people practice and enjoy music-making.
Co-founder of the Alma Ensemble and the Piano Music She Wrote project.
https://linktr.ee/ericaannsipes
https://www.ericaannsipes.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcH8S2V
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
Judith Ingolfsson @judithingolfsson.com Violinist, performer, educator, and advocate for women’s equality.
Cat lady, proud mom.
Professor at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.
💙
www.judithingolfsson.com
Stephanie Lamprea @slampreasoprano.bsky.social Colombian-American soprano 🇨🇴🇺🇸
Based in Glasgow 🏴♥
Contemporary-classical / avant-garde ⚡️🎶
Website: http://www.stephanielamprea.com/
Emily Doolittle @emilydoolittle.bsky.social Researcher & Lecturer in Composition, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Writes music & words with & about animal songs, zoomusicology, folkore, gender, parenthood & creativity, interdisciplinarity. Plays oboe with whippets: https://tinyurl.com/2wyxc4st
Rusti @rustiology.bsky.social Composer / soprano / SCAdian / amateur rapier fencer / currently arranging Hildegard works
Dr Laura Watson @lauracwatson.bsky.social Musicologist/Associate Professor, Maynooth University | author Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (2019); coeditor Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019); coeditor Women and Music in Ireland (2022) | Sounding the Feminists | Memoirs | she/her
Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social Cello, with a strong focus on music by women composers.
http://www.wildcellist.ca
https://corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspeakable-beauty-works-by-historical-women-composers-arranged-for-unaccompanied-cello
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social 🎼 free Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) scores
Because you've played enough Chopin already 🎹
henselpushers.org/links
Also, because I can’t help it, henselfest.org
guardian of Dishwasher cat 🐆🥣🍴🫧✨
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
🌅 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 🌉
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.
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
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.
Jessica Duchen @jessicaduchen.bsky.social Classical music critic, author, librettist. MYRA HESS - NATIONAL TREASURE out now and available from https://www.kahnandaverill.co.uk/product/myra-hess-national-treasure/
Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Finding a Voice @findingavoice.bsky.social On a mission to produce concerts of unforgettable music by remarkable women since 2017! Next festival 6th-9th March 2025 🎶 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Róisín Maher @roisinmaher.bsky.social Lecturer in Music at MTU Cork School of Music | Co-founder and Artistic Director of Finding a Voice | Clonmel native living in West Cork
Donna McKevitt @donnamckevittmusic.bsky.social Film:
#TheFold #Orpheus #LosingGrace
Documentary: #TheMountainWithinMe #MyNameIsAlfredHitchcock #TheStoryofLooking
Dance:
#Sadler’sWells #TheRoyalOperaHouse
Concert:
#TheGesualdoSix #TheOraSingers #TheMarianConsort #Tenebrae #Voces8 #Apollo5
RobbJMacKay @robbjmackay.bsky.social Interprovincial man of mystery, teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and of Musicology. Settler. Making one mistake after another.
Vick Bain @vickbain.bsky.social 'So-called expert' random man on Twitter 😂
Fervent lefty, founder of @theflistmusic & PhD researcher #womeninmusic
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)
Angela Elizabeth Slater @angelascomposer.bsky.social UK Composer.
Founder of Illuminate Women's Music
RPS composer 2021-22 |
Mendelssohn Scholar Award 2019 |
Tanglewood 2020-22
Ivors nomination 2023
Aspen Composition fellow 2024
http://angelaslatercomposer.co.uk
Illuminate Womens Music @illumwomensmusic.bsky.social A touring concert series celebrating and promoting the creativity of women both a performers and composers and demonstrating the rich legacy of music written by women from the past. Please visit www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk
Alex Patterson @alexpattersonmusic.bsky.social Choir stuff. Northern Irish. 🏳️🌈
Director of Music at Salford Cathedral https://bsky.app/profile/salfordcathmus.bsky.social
Musical Director of BMS Singers https://bsky.app/profile/bmssingers.bsky.social
www.alexpatterson.co.uk
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
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
Hannah Williams @drhanwill.bsky.social Reader in History of Art, Queen Mary University of London
http://artistsinparis.org http://colonialnetworks.org
Co-Editor of https://www.journal18.org/
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
Madeleine Mitchell @madeleinemitchell.bsky.social Violinist performing worldwide. Director London Chamber Ensemble & The Red Violin festival reg charity, professor Royal College of Music, opera and art lover, Mama
Margaret @benregis.bsky.social Music librarian, sometime musician and music teacher. Loves books, music (particularly classical), dogs, film, theatre, travel, and history. Living in the Fens, originally from dragon country in Wales
Eva Meitner @evameitner.bsky.social conductor | pianist
female composers
📍Leipzig
www.eva-meitner.de 
Dr. Naomi Perley @cutelittlebyrdy.bsky.social Musicologist who's really into birds. (and byrd. sometimes.)
Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile
Tudorfp @tudorfp.bsky.social Gustav, Isobel & Imogen Holst and Vally Lasker. Mrs. Gustav Holst (2022). Church history and history of ideas, mostly Tudors and Huguenots. Next book Confidence: History of an idea from the 14th century to the present.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK 
The Herbert Howells Society @herberthowells.bsky.social Promoting the music of British composer Herbert Howells CH (1892-1983)
President: Sir John Rutter
Chairman: Paul Spicer
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
David Fawcett @choralwork.bsky.social Mission and ministry to children and young people through traditional church music. Want to see many more children everywhere have the chance to grow in faith and become leaders in parish church music ministry. Building for the future in Swanage, Dorset.
Delphian Records @delphianrecords.com Gramophone Award-winning classical/comtemporary record label operating from Edinburgh.
Our catalogue is curated to inspire the adventurous 🚀
🎙️ www.delphianrecords.com
Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social Welsh-Irish opera singer 🏴 🇮🇪 🎶
Writer 📖
Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Westminster, London 🎤 💻
#Penarth 🏖️
#Cymraeg 🐦🔥
www.paulcareyjones.net
keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Benjamin Nicholas @benjaminnicholas.bsky.social Conductor of the Choir of Merton College, Oxford and the Oxford Bach Choir.
Tom Edney @tomedney.bsky.social Conductor 🎶
Editor and orchestrator ✍️
PhD student at Royal College of Music, London
Artistic director, Odiham Music Festival
🏳️🌈 🌱
He/Him
Gabriel Jackson @gabrielcomposer.bsky.social Composer
Likes clothes, tattoos, RnB & Eastern Europe
Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2