Laura Hamer
@drlaurahamer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University; Feminist Musicologist; Lover of house plants and the outdoors #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
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
Women Transforming Classical Music | Music Mark
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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September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Really excited that Women Transforming Classical Music is now available through @musicmarkuk.bsky.social's Resources: www.musicmark.org.uk/resources/wo... #WomenInMusic
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...
This event is free, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-tran...
Women Transforming Classical Music Launch
Women Transforming Classical Music Launch
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August 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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...
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 🎶
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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June 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
Fabulous to be back here to do some #WomenInMusic research today 😊
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
CFP open until 6 June #WomenInMusic
Embodied Monologues – Research Series 2021/2022
www.embodiedmonologues.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
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) 🎶
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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 🎶
April 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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)
March 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
March 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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!
March 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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!
Reposted by Laura Hamer
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! 🕯
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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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March 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
Really lovely to spend time on our main Open University campus at Walton Hall for our Arts & Humanities Teaching and Learning Conference #OUFamily
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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! 🎶
March 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy International Women's Day 2025 to all my #WomenInMusic friends and colleagues! 🎶
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🎉Very happy to see a title that brings a fresh, and much needed perspective to the growing body of research about women and music!
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
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🎉Very happy to see a title that brings a fresh, and much needed perspective to the growing body of research about women and music!
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 🎶
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
March 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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
February 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University – Royal Musical Association
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February 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...
I did my PhD at Cardiff University. The support and opportunities which I received made me the researcher and university teacher that I am today. It is heart breaking to think of this world-leading department being under threat. Please sign if you are able:
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January 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I did my PhD at Cardiff University. The support and opportunities which I received made me the researcher and university teacher that I am today. It is heart breaking to think of this world-leading department being under threat. Please sign if you are able:
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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.
January 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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
November 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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