Brad Mehldau @handle.invalid The official Brad Mehldau Bluesky https://linktr.ee/bradmehldau
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social The leading new music publication in the U.S. dedicated to living composers.
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Richard Betts @ricardaonz.bsky.social Nasty, brutish and short. Arts columnist NZ Listener, other words elsewhere. Music with a soupçon of politics.
New York Philharmonic @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social The New York Philharmonic connects with up to 50 million music lovers annually through live concerts in New York and around the world, broadcasts, recordings, education programs, and the Leon Levy digital archives. Visit our website: http://nyphil.org
Askonas Holt @askonasholt.bsky.social Leading international classical music and arts management agency
#MakingMusicHappen since 1876
Find us everywhere @AskonasHolt
Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social Classical music obsessive. 🏳️🌈
CNN @cnn.com Asking the hard questions and bringing unique perspectives from across the globe. This is CNN.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Simon Holden @simonjh.bsky.social Opera and noodles gay. Bachtrack reviewer. Auckland NZ
Culture/Nerd @opustechnica.bsky.social Video producer, director, and editor, formerly LA Phil and the Hollywood Bowl. Ravel, Shostakovich, sushi, and beer.
Petroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
Andrew Mitchell @chaconato.bsky.social 🇺🇳 🏳️🌈 classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
Sign up: http://wordsonmusic.substack.com
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg @elbphilharmonie.de 
Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
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/ 
Eric Pinder @operahockeyguy.bsky.social Actor, director, writer, bon vivant. Artistic Director of CFVA and Opera Del Sol. Gay. Sardonic. Ironic. Not iconic
Working on the libretto for a hockey opera tentatively titled “Goaliedammerung”
Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social Campaigner to support the BBC (not a BBC employee). It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs >49 pence/around 65 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
Russ Grazier @russ-grazier.bsky.social Saxophonist, composer, author, and educator. CEO of Portsmouth Music and Arts Center.
John Nasukaluk Clare @nasuk.bsky.social Broadcaster, classical music influencer, bunny dad
🎹 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.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
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
Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
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
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
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."
isaac io @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
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
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. 
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
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 activist-scholar formerly known as 'the abortion musicologist' // teacher, writer, PhD candidate, peer counselor // fieldwork in the Southeast, writing in NYC, repro justice activism everywhere // she & they
Mr. Plumbean @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; director @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
Kathleen Kelly @kathleenkellymusic.bsky.social Piano, porch, pen. Diversity IS strength. All six genders are fluid. Say who you are. Goose value 71! And if you want, read MUSIC MINUS NONE at https://buttondown.com/Kathleenkellymusic
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