Head of School of Music at the University of Leeds and Professor of Music. Immediate Past President of the Royal Musical Association. All views are my own.
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
4 Aug 2025
Holiday time = sketching. A view of Boulangerie Grain, through the open window of our apartment in Bordeaux. Next stop Saint Jean de Luz.
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
5 Aug 2025
Ruined brick build, ruined stone build, rock formations: Plage de Laftinea, St-Jean-de-Luz
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Congratulations to @TheresaHeskins and the magnificent cast of musician-actors: a joyous, breathtakingly outstanding production, we were privileged to see it tonight. See it if you can, 3 more opportunities: memorable
6 Apr 2025
A great ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️'s from @ObserverUK for A Matter Of Life and Death!
The 'delightful adaptation' is on stage until Sat 19 April. Don't miss it!
theguardian.com/stage/2025/a…
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
1 Feb 2025
The interview is available here at 2 hours 42 minutes in. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027d…
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
20 Nov 2024
Really delighted to be invited to contribute to reflecting on the radical creative ageing work @KeeleInclusion is undertaking with @CADA_England in #StokeonTrent
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Very excited to attend tonight’s leg of the final of @leedspiano: stunning performances
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Absolutely delighted about our new appointment!!!
@RubensAskenar @_morgan_hayes @LEDrewett @AaronHNahum
16 Sep 2024
We are pleased to announce that internationally recognised composer, conductor and viola player, @brettdeanmusic, joins the Academy's Composition and Contemporary Music Department as a Visiting Professor 🎼👏🏻
Read more here > bit.ly/3AZSu3i
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
14 Sep 2024
Thank you to everyone at the #RMA150 conference, we hope you had a great conference and safe journey home. Special thank you to everyone who joined us in the British Library yesterday evening to celebrate our anniversary in style!
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
6 Sep 2024
An early walk by the Severn in the Coalbrookdale Gorge, followed by a very stimulating symposium meeting of the literature and the industrial revolution network, @ahrcpress @IronbridgeGMT @English_Keele @KeeleHistory
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
19 Aug 2024
Reminder: registration is open for our annual conference next month at Senate House and the British Library. Come for over 70 panels, nearly 200 presenters, 2 fantastic keynotes, and a big party to celebrate our 150th anniversary! rma150.wordpress.com/registr…
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
19 Aug 2024
COMPOSITRICE DE LA SEMAINE! #Tailleferre Composer of the Week repeated this week @BBCRadio3 4-5 pm @KateMolleson @BarbaraKelly8 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nw7…
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2 Aug 2024
Very proud to deliver the keynote lecture as the Macgeorge Visiting Speaker at the University of Melbourne. Looking forward to the symposium, Musical Nationbuilding and Cultural Exchange in Interwar France and Australia. @LeedsUniAHC @UniMelb
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
22 Jul 2024
SOS call for @GoldsmithsUoL Leadership. The savings gained at end of July will be spent, and then some, by October. By then, it will have been cheaper to do nothing. It is illogical. Making big decisions in a panic never leads to good outcomes. A final call: please think again.
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
22 Jul 2024
The details of what is happening in Music at Goldsmiths are brutal. As things stand they will lose a collaborative Leverhulme Doctoral College grant (7 funded PhDs) and an AHRC grant. Staff FTE reduced by 35%. Negative impacts on curriculum and pastoral care cannot be avoided.
21 Jul 2024
Universities are facing a financial crisis before the new academic year with an analysis finding that scores will have to cut courses, shut departments and put thousands of jobs at risk ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
4 Jul 2024
Registration is now open for this year's RMA Annual Conference, 11-13 September at Senate House (University of London) and the British Library: rma.ac.uk/2024/07/04/registr…
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
26 Jun 2024
📣Calling all composers!
@royalmusical are looking for submissions for their #RMA Conference Compositions Workshops in celebration of their 150th anniversary. Deadline 1st August 2024.
ℹ️More info: rma150.wordpress.com/callfor…
📧Or, email > catherine.laws@york.ac.uk
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2 Jul 2024
It was an honour to give the keynote lecture at the plenary conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland at the University of Galway! I was also delighted to be awarded Corresponding Membership of the society by the outgoing President, John O’Flynn.
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2 Jul 2024
It was poignant to be in Galway, where I have strong family connections. For decades they have talked about establishing a music department there. Thanks to Aidan Thomson, there is a thriving department now. It is a proud moment for Irish musicology on its 21st birthday.
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Barbara Kelly retweeted
27 Jun 2024
I love #blueplaque spotting, this pairing tells me that Dorothy Richardson and George Jacob Holyoake lived next door to each other, if not quite at the same time @GreenBowlerHat !
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