Dr Des Oliver's Starter Pack
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@desolivercomposer.bsky.social
@johnmitchinson.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, co-host of Backlisted, publisher of Boundless.
@thebjps.bsky.social
Latest issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/current BJPS Review of Books: https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/ BJPS Short Reads: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/ Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bjps
@avidprotools.bsky.social
Create, record, edit, and mix the highest quality music or sound for film and TV with Pro Tools.
@medievaliste.bsky.social
independent scholar, sometime professor, academic editor medieval studies; musicology; women’s and gender history; increasingly writing about feelings glgower.com
@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
@vanmusicmag.bsky.social
Independent online classical music magazine published weekly in English and German. Strong personalities welcome. www.van-magazine.com
@danelphick.bsky.social
Music Lecturer at RHUL, working on music history and analysis, and Slavic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser (Chair of @rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h https://danielelphick.co.uk
@caitlinvincent.bsky.social
Opera, cultural labour, inequality. Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Also opera librettist and occasional baker. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner), coming soonish. Opinions own. She/her. 😷
@alexandracoghlan.bsky.social
Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
@boulezian.bsky.social
Intellectual, political, and cultural history; music; musicology; politics. Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas and C18 religion/politics/philosophy. Views, for better or worse, my own. https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
@oscarbettison.bsky.social
Composer, Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Fulham fan. He/Him/His. (Views are my own)
@historylauren.bsky.social
Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod. AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
@scorefollower.bsky.social
the score video resource for the beautifully gnarly sounds of today https://scorefol.io
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
Unofficial bot for what’s on BBC Radio 3. Telegram: t.me/BBCRadio3Now @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social @bbcradio1bot.bsky.social @bbcradio1xtrabot.bsky.social @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social @bbcasiannetworkbot.bsky.social
@amwilson.bsky.social
Academic | Author | Cultural commentator Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
@kayemclelland.bsky.social
Late-onset Theology student; otherwise researcher of 17thC sermons; sometime lecturer in Ren Lit; Worship leader (CinW); queer; disabled; parent of 5; contralto; liminal creature; now living in Wales; owned by 2 cats and a galgo, she/her. kayemclelland.com
@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.
@rebeccafranks.bsky.social
Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy Sign up: http://wordsonmusic.substack.com
@lucasgrindley.bsky.social
Executive Director + podcast host for @nextcity.org Composer; music in links. he/him 🏳️🌈 https://linkin.bio/lucasgrindley https://lmgsoundworks.substack.com
@artsprofessional.co.uk
The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
@elainekelly.bsky.social
Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
@icchamberchoir.bsky.social
The chamber choir of Imperial College London. MD Patrick Allies - @patrickallies.bsky.social. https://linkin.bio/icchamberchoir/?fbclid=PAAaaTKuvJf4PkX3MoWkKtnIGk6HbTSic2MOkzAdPsKH_sYVpENSET
@hillgower.bsky.social
Oakland native, siaradwr Cymraeg, recently relapsed oboist. Co-ordinating Editor of Popular Music. Prof of Popular Music and Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford.
@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
@newworlddram.bsky.social
New World Records / Recorded Anthology of American Music. Our mission is to record the music of under-represented American composers -- newworldrecords.org
@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
@jonathancross.bsky.social
Musicologist | Director, Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities @uniofoxford
@jjohnstonmezzo.bsky.social
• British Opera Singer • Rep: HarrisonParrott Group • Patron: Streetwise Opera, Destination Opera, Southport Bach Choir • LCR Music Board Member • Creative Consultant: clients incl. London Transport Museum • Former Barrister • Views mine
@nicoleegrimes.bsky.social
Musicologist & cultural historian | Assoc. Prof of Music @tcddublin | General Editor: New Cambridge Music Handbooks | Current research 19C women composers
@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://linktr.ee/carolinepotter
@buddytwo.bsky.social
I edit for Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press), The Open Space Magazine, and Perspectives of New Music. Writing a book for @ucpress.bsky.social on the composer-theorists at Princeton within Cold War modernism. #Arsenal. Views my own.
@lauracwatson.bsky.social
Musicologist/Associate Professor, Maynooth University | BOOKS: Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (2019); Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019); Women and Music in Ireland (2022) | Sounding the Feminists | Memoirs | she/her #endometriosis
@londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social
Transforming young Londoners' lives through singing.
@pennymarshwort.bsky.social
Plant ecologist & soprano 🌱🌿🍂🎶🎵🌿Studied botany at Oxford, London & Reading Universities.🎶 Kathleen Ferrier Award, Grammy nominated singer 🍄🌳 Lover of grasses, sheds & making music with friends & family 🎵
@michellechn.bsky.social
Senior Editor at University Press of Colorado acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, history, and polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) and Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.
@alterclassical.bsky.social
Pioneering positive change in the classical music industry.
@chrisdromey.bsky.social
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Companion to Applied Musicology https://t.ly/pHWqa The Classical Music Industry https://t.ly/FkuX The Pierrot Ensembles https://t.ly/hft_
@ambleskuse.bsky.social
Musician Artist Sea Beach Reading Phd Disability Vegetables Cats Scotland Welsh Celtic Travel Cottage Gardening
@apartment-house.bsky.social
We play music, don’t go out much. European. ‘wtf was that?’ Phill Niblock www.apartmenthouse.co.uk
@cathersrose.bsky.social
Musician, grower of food, lover of nature, rage against climate chaos.
@ninadanon.bsky.social
Composer & lecturer • PhD student researching neurodivergence in composition and musical neuroqueering • Kinetic (ADHD) Autistic, Neurodivergent, Disabled • she/they
@stephenbarchan.bsky.social
Composer; Senior Tutor in Composition and Music Theory at Dulwich Music Academy; RPT @ism-music.bsky.social; Musicological Consultant for London New Wind Festival; FRSA, FGMS https://stephenbarchan.com
@robinhaigh.bsky.social
2017 British Composer Award Winner, 2020 Ivor Novello Award Winner, Gaudeamus Award Nominee 2025 https://robinhaigh.com
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@desolivercomposer.bsky.social
BMus MMus DPhil (Oxon) | Composer | LSO Jerwood Composer https://www.hennesseybrownmusic.com/classical-musicians/des-oliver-composer