Dr Kate Kennedy
Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. @ox.ac.uk
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- ✨🎶 Starting TONIGHT and all this week on #BBCRadio3 🎶✨ This week Mon–Fri at 21:45, I’m broadcasting a special five-part series from the collections of the #MuseumofMusicHistory. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Kate KennedyJoin OCLW's life-writing class to learn craft and form in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams. 📆Mondays in term time | 11am 📍Wolfson College + Online Open to all buff.ly/dpvWVs6
- Sir Stephen Hough was rather taken with the digitorium, a bit less frightening than the dactylium, which is half village stocks, half finger trap. Nightmare. What ARE we up to?! All will be revealed on BBC Radio 3, week beginning 19 Jan. #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory #VictorianCuriosities
- Sir Stephen Hough doesn’t really need his fingers, does he?! Having fun torturing him with eccentric and deservedly forgotten finger strengthening contraptions from the C19th. They didn’t do #Schumann much good, perhaps Stephen will do better? #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory
- There are few things more Christmassy than a Messiah 🎄🎶 — and Wild Arts’ semi-staged (#TomMorris) memorised Messiah is on another level for storytelling and audience engagement. At @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social it was a triumph 👏✨ Catch it at Chichester or Chelmsford if you can! www.wildarts.org.uk
- ‘Non-fiction can’t do justice to the times we’re in’ — Olivia Laing on her novel The Silver Book at @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social lecture last night ✨📚🎤 #OliviaLaing #TheSilverBook #Oxford #OxfordCentreForLifeWriting #AuthorTalk #WritersOfInstagram #BookLovers
- Delighted to share @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social selected my book as one of their #BooksoftheYear2025! Need a Christmas present?! Thank you to Tony Curtis who discovered it via @lrb.co.uk. Read here: thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b... #Books #WritersOfBluesky #Cello 🎻📚✨ #Christmas2025
- Reposted by Dr Kate KennedyOur #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social @drkkennedy.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social & @poetrybuspress.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...
- Thrilled to announce the launch of a new baroque ensemble: Guerrero Baroque Collective! 🎶✨ Come hear us on: 📅 Saturday 6 December 🕢 19:30 ⛪ Catholic Church of Saint James, London Ft. Ana Beard Fernández and friends from Southwell Consort. 🎫 Book tickets: www.guerrerobaroquecollective.com
- Treacherous black rocks at The Lizard in #Cornwall, where Ethel Smyth found inspiration for her Cornish gothic #opera The Wreckers! ⚫🌊⛅🎶 Not sure whether #EthelSmyth also indulged in local food, but thought I’d go the whole Cornish hog! @southwestcoastpath.bsky.social @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
- The @suttonhoo.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk lyre — an imaginative reconstruction from the fragments of the #AngloSaxon original discovered in the burial mound 🪕 The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
- At Hatchlands Park @nationaltrust.org.uk with the OAE’s keyboard specialist Stephen Devine, revelling in a wealth of historic instruments 🎹✨ But I’m here to explore #Napoleon ’s piano — his wedding gift to his teenage bride, who sobbed in her carriage all the way from Vienna 🎼💔 #NationalTrust
- 🎆 Fireworks on the weekend at BBC Radio 3's Record Review! Explosive playing from my choices of Sinfonia of London, @thehalle.bsky.social, and super-cellist Gautier Capucon 🎻✨ Expect resurrection, celebration, and more! 📻 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Radio3 #RecordReview
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- If you haven’t yet tuned in… podcast available via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! 👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs #HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
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- Had a wonderful conversation with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! - exploring music, memory, and the missing cello that connects generations. 🎻 Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs #HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
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- 🚨🎙️ Episode 1 streaming next Tuesday 21 October 2025 ✨Excited to be opening the brand new @historyffs.bsky.social podcast series! Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube. #HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
- 🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚 Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.' 📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building) More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
- ✨ Here's the front-page review of Cello by Thomas Laqueur in this week’s @lrb.co.uk! 🎻 👉 Full review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 📖 Only £10.11 on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe... #Cello @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
- 📻 This Sunday 12 October at 19:30 📻 Tune in and listen to the re-release of my BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, ‘The Cello and the Nightingale’, and hear why Beatrice Harrison’s famous recording made history. 🎶 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #BBCRadio3 #radio3 #cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
- 👏 Well played – the Brahms and that lovely cello tune in the #Haydn slow movement sounded great! 🎶 A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards! #ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
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- Explored how we see music - instruments as art, sound as colour. We could have talked for hours @ @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social. @elliechan.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @duckworthbooks.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
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- 🎻 Next week at New Paths Music Autumn Festival! 📍 Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley (near Hull) 📅 Thursday 25th September 2025 Stories of shipwrecks 🚢, beehives 🐝 & hope. 🎟️ Tickets 👉 www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-paths-mu... #Cello #LiveMusic #Festival #Storytelling
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- 🎙️ Listen to my radio interview on Cello 🎻 and exciting new writing projects on Selina MacKenzie's Lifestyles Show on @tre.radio Link here (near top of announcements): drkatekennedy.com #Cello #AuthorInterview #ClassicalMusic #Books #OnAir
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- If you missed it on Sunday 🎶 here’s my chat (at 1:00:35 in the link) with Ian Skelly looking ahead at this final week of the BBC Proms at the @royalalberthall.bsky.social 🎻. 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #BBCProms #RoyalAlbertHall @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social
- At @royalalberthall.bsky.social. I was in the box with Ian Skelly: luscious harmonies with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social. Gave a good BBC Radio 3 shout out to @nationalyouthchoir.bsky.social for their prom next week. An awesome bunch, and my 13 year old daughter had her life changed by them.
- Spotted! 🎻 The paperback of Cello is now available! 📖 Grab your copy: amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe... @headofzeus.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social #Cello #NewRelease #PaperbackLaunch #MusicAndWords #AuthorLife #BookLovers
- ✨ This Thursday I'll be opening the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival with my event 'Love of the Cello'. 📍 Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park 📅 Thu 4 Sept 2025 | 3PM 💷 Great concessions + Under 25s go FREE! 🎟️ Book now 👉 www.ticketsource.co.uk/picmf/t-jzor... #Swanage
- Regretting introducing my little boy Isaac to this - thanks to the Early Music Shop at Snape Maltings, he’s planning to add a whole new element to his school orchestra.
- From Edinburgh to Snape - vibrant, fizzing festival to reed beds - here’s the view from the dressing room!
- Having the best time at @edbookfest.bsky.social - as many talks and shows as can be packed into 24 hours! Couldn’t have had a better chair than Jo Buckley - such a great conversation! #edinburgh #edinburghbookfestival #cello
- 🎻 The Sound of Four Strings — live at @edbookfest.bsky.social ✨ Join me on 19 August at 13.45 as I talk about my book Cello, chaired by the brilliant Jo Buckley. 🎟️ Tickets (concessions available) → www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... @headofzeus.bsky.social #Cello #EdBookFest #MusicAndWords
- 📦 Available now on Amazon for delivery from 14 August. 🔗 Tap the link: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe... @headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social #Cello #BookLaunch #PaperbackRelease #AuthorLife #ComingSoon #Bookstagram
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- Offer ends tomorrow. Available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app 📚✨ 🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout. 🔗 Link here: tidd.ly/412UZMq @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social #Cello #WPreorder #BookLaunch #Bookstagram
- 🎉 Exclusive 4-day offer! The paperback of my book Cello 🎻 is now 25% off — available only on the @waterstones.bsky.social website & app! 📚✨ 🛒 Use code SUMMER25 at the basket stage of checkout. 🔗 tidd.ly/412UZMq @headofzeus.bsky.social #Cello #WPreorder #Bookstagram #BookLaunch @ox.ac.uk
- Talking biography and all things life-writing with some fabulous writers and academics in 🇳🇴 #Norway, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) — and being absolutely spoilt rotten by them! ✍️📚✨ #LifeWriting #Biography #AcademicLife #Writing #StorytellingMatters @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
- 🏰 Our castle — home of the Tuscan life-writing retreat ✍️🍷 Can’t believe we’re into our fourth year already! #WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat #StorytellingMatters #AmWriting #AuthorLife #RetreatMagic
- One of the many reasons I ❤️ working in Tuscany — the Scampanata! 🇮🇹🎺 Craziest tradition? The whole town of Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town. It’s bloomin’ marvellous 🎶 #TuscanyLife
- 🌞 Happy Summer Everyone! If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥 🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com 📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound #SummerVibes #NewProjects 🎻🌿💫
- I talk all things Vaughan Williams 🎼 with Gillian Moore 🎙️ on Building a Library on BBC Radio 3 Record Review. Is Williams’s 5th Symphony actually the most beautiful symphony ever written? 🤔🎻 It’s a strong contender. My bit is at 1 hr 1 min! ⏱️ 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- 🐸 🎶 Midnight Bach with a chorus of #frogs and a glowing #tree dancer 🌳 Having a lot of fun in the south of France… #wacky concerts! #MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes #FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance #TreeDancer #GlowInTheDark #WackyConcerts #ClassicalMusicReimagined
- It’s been a crazily busy few weeks: concerts, talks, book launches and trips to Norway, Italy and France. More to follow but for now here are a few memories of our Oxford Writing Mentors writing course 🇮🇹📚 Thanks to the brilliant Julia Flynn Siler 🔗 juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/05/30/e...
- Unforgettable evening at No.30 Knightsbridge sharing the journey behind my book #Cello. Also celebrated the extraordinary work of the Museum of Music History. www.instagram.com/p/DLW6iY1MhU...
- 🎧 New Podcast! I'm featured on the latest episode of BYU Radio’s Constant Wonder — available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! ✨ 🔗 www.byuradio.org/constant-won... #NewPodcast #Cello #SpotifyPodcasts #ApplePodcasts #YouTubePodcast #Storytelling #PodcasterLife
- Last night's evening sunlight over St Mary's in Hay - such a gorgeous venue! @hayfestival.bsky.social
- 📣 Thrilled to be performing at the @hayfestival.bsky.social tonight! 🎤✨ Join me today at 8.30pm for an evening of words, memory, and live music 🎶 featuring the brilliant cellist Cara Berridge 🎻 🎟️ Tickets here: www.hayfestival.com/p-23329-kate... #HayFestival2025 #HayFestival #Cello
- From the faded #Victorian splendour of the Grand Hotel in Folkestone to a great Parisian mansion preserved as a memorial once its Jewish family were deported - so moving to have Hermione Lee and Edmund de Waal in conversation. @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
- A wonderful time performing our event with Cara Berridge in Kent for the Sacconi Quartet festival. We'll next be touring in #Wales this week, more to follow!
