It was great to be back at Cardiff University yesterday for Music Mark's first Music HE Conference. Really good to meet so many Music colleagues and to have the opportunity to present on my OpenLearn Course Women Transforming Classical Music @musicmarkuk.bsky.social #WomenInMusic

It was a real pleasure to present some of my work on historic and contemporary women orchestras and conductors as part of the Royal Irish Academy of Music's Online Research Seminar Series today #WomenInMusic

This week I had the huge honour to present Anna Lapwood with an Honorary Doctorate from The Open University at our Manchester Graduation Ceremony #OUFamily #WomenInMusic #PlayLikeAGirl

Really excited that Women Transforming Classical Music is now available through @musicmarkuk.bsky.social's Resources: www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/wo... #WomenInMusic

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Women Transforming Classical Music is a free, online course produced by The Open University. The course supports performers and classical music ensembles and organisations to diversify their repertoir...

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Registration is now open for the launch of Women Transforming Classical Music, which will be held online on Friday 19 September, 10am-12pm (UK/ROI time). This event is free, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-tran...

It's been wonderful to spend the last few days working in the Lili Boulanger Archive at the BnF 🎶

It was a pleasure to author the OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music', which is designed to support performers and classical music ensembles and institutions to perform more music by historic and contemporary women composers: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #WomenInMusic

Women transforming classical music

Women transforming classical music is a free course aimed at helping individual performers, ensembles and organisations within the classical music industry to diversify their repertoire by ...

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Fabulous to be back here to do some #WomenInMusic research today 😊

Excited to be part of the Organising Committee for #EmbodiedMonologues 2025 celebrating #CathyBerberian - 5 September, Maynooth University: www.embodiedmonologues.com CFP open until 6 June #WomenInMusic

Exciting to receive my author copies of my Cambridge #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool' co-written with Michael Brocken! Mary Hamer was a dance band leader, pianist, and exhibition dancer (but not a relative) 🎶

I've really enjoyed interviewing more #WomenInMusic colleagues @angelascomposer.bsky.social, @deborahkeyser.bsky.social, Stephan Meier, and Gabriella Di Laccio this week about the fantastic work which they do promoting the performance of women's music 🎶

It was fantastic to get to interview my #WomenInMusic colleagues @roisinmaher.bsky.social and Tim Parker-Langston about their important work promoting the performance of women's music this week for inclusion in my forthcoming OpenLearn Course 'Women Transforming Classical Music' (Autumn 2025)

Thought-provoking to participate in an EDIA Seminar today discussing work on diversifying music teaching

Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!

Oh nein, eine ganz, ganz Große ist gegangen... 93 Jahre voll Musik... Was für ein Leben, was für kostbare Geschenke Sofia Gubaidulina uns hinterlassen hat... Was für ein Werk! 🕯 www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Zum Tod von Sofia Gubaidulina: Sie ging auch in der Sowjetunion ihren eigenen Weg

Sie ging auch in der Sowjetunion ihren eigenen Weg, ließ sich heimlich taufen und sprach zum Publikum wie nur wenige andere zeitgenössische Komponisten. Zum Tod von Sofia Gubaidulina.

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Really lovely to spend time on our main Open University campus at Walton Hall for our Arts & Humanities Teaching and Learning Conference #OUFamily

Happy International Women's Day 2025 to all my #WomenInMusic friends and colleagues! 🎶

🎉Very happy to see a title that brings a fresh, and much needed perspective to the growing body of research about women and music!

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Congratulations to @drlaurahamer.bsky.social, whose co-edited book The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond was published recently. #AcademicSky #OUFamily #Research #Music #WomenInMusic

Really enjoyed running a seminar on writing about music at our Open University Level 1 Arts & Humanities Day School in Cardiff today focusing on music by Marianna von Martines and Joan Baez 🎶

Really looking forward to spending St David's Day with Open University students and colleagues co-leading our Level 1 Arts & Humanities Day School in Cardiff #OUFamily

When our Welsh musical heritage and culture feel so under attack at the moment, it was a really lovely surprise to hear Porthcawl Male Choir singing as I passed through Paddington Station today - beautiful performance

Fabulous to be spending the day with Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences colleagues at our OU Wales AL Community Event in Cardiff #OUfamily

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Really sorry not to be able to join the @royalmusical.bsky.social /BFE Annual Students' Conference in person in Aberdeen, but looking forwarding to joining various committee and council meetings and catching up with colleagues remotely.

Wonderful evening celebrating the online launch of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (shared with permission) #WomenInMusic

Sorry not to be able to join the Women & Leadership in the Creative Industries Conference at Bournemouth University today but glad that Prof Helen Julia Minors is able to present our paper on 'Exploring and Appraising WMLON, The Women’s Musical Leadership Online Network' #WomenInMusic

Wonderful to see this on the Routledge stand at the RMA 150 Conference #WomenInMusic @royalmusical.bsky.social

Looking forward to the RMA 150 Conference in London tomorrow @royalmusical.bsky.social and to presenting my paper on Marguerite Long!

Really pleased to see The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond, co-edited by myself and Prof Helen Julia Minors, published. Huge thanks to all our wonderful authors #WomenInMusic www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...