Leah Broad
@leahbroad.bsky.social
Writer | Presenter | Historian
I write about music, women's history & cultural history.
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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
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Leah Broad
@leahbroad.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Having a can't-quite-believe-it's-real moment, but my next book has got a Whiting Grant @whitingfoundation.bsky.social 🥹 It's about how women exert agency in the most difficult circumstances, feminism & fascism, & why/how music is political. There's an extract here: www.whiting.org/content/leah...
What an incredible week it has been for Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Thank you so much to everyone who has bought, streamed, or downloaded the album, & who came to launch it with us. If you would like info about programming her music, please do contact me!!
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What an incredible week it has been for Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Thank you so much to everyone who has bought, streamed, or downloaded the album, & who came to launch it with us. If you would like info about programming her music, please do contact me!!
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Finally some time* to sit and listen to this several times properly. To think that this music could so easily have been forgotten. Amazing work by Leah Broad and everyone involved!
(*The first cold virus of the winter seems to be a bit of a thug)
(*The first cold virus of the winter seems to be a bit of a thug)
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
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November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Finally some time* to sit and listen to this several times properly. To think that this music could so easily have been forgotten. Amazing work by Leah Broad and everyone involved!
(*The first cold virus of the winter seems to be a bit of a thug)
(*The first cold virus of the winter seems to be a bit of a thug)
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Listening to this now. Some wonderful music here - strongly recommended. 🎶
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Listening to this now. Some wonderful music here - strongly recommended. 🎶
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Really enjoying the Piano Concerto 👍
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Really enjoying the Piano Concerto 👍
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#AlbumTherapy Avril Coleridge-Taylor, _Piano Concertos & Orchestral Works_
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#AlbumTherapy Avril Coleridge-Taylor, _Piano Concertos & Orchestral Works_
music.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg90...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg90...
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Having been lucky enough to do the preparatory rehearsal conducting @rcmlondon.bsky.social for ‘To April’, can vouch for the excellence of this under-appreciated music. Chapeau to @leahbroad.bsky.social and @tomedney.bsky.social 👏👏👏
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Having been lucky enough to do the preparatory rehearsal conducting @rcmlondon.bsky.social for ‘To April’, can vouch for the excellence of this under-appreciated music. Chapeau to @leahbroad.bsky.social and @tomedney.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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It’s finally here!
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s finally here!
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Wonderful composer! I'm so glad this album of music by Avril Coleridge-Taylor has finally been released. It's beautiful! 😍
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Wonderful composer! I'm so glad this album of music by Avril Coleridge-Taylor has finally been released. It's beautiful! 😍
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I am so excited for this album to arrive! I mentioned it in, and interviewed Dr. Ege and Dr. Broad for, this NPR piece on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th anniversary back in August
Congratulations to @jkaconductor.bsky.social, @leahbroad.bsky.social, and Samantha Ege!
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
Congratulations to @jkaconductor.bsky.social, @leahbroad.bsky.social, and Samantha Ege!
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I am so excited for this album to arrive! I mentioned it in, and interviewed Dr. Ege and Dr. Broad for, this NPR piece on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th anniversary back in August
Congratulations to @jkaconductor.bsky.social, @leahbroad.bsky.social, and Samantha Ege!
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
Congratulations to @jkaconductor.bsky.social, @leahbroad.bsky.social, and Samantha Ege!
www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
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Performing a viola & piano programme of all British 🇬🇧 women composers: Minna Keal, Freda Swain & Rebecca Clarke (of course). With violist Jenny Lewisohn in Harlow, Essex. Tomorrow Friday 21st Nov, 1pm
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Performing a viola & piano programme of all British 🇬🇧 women composers: Minna Keal, Freda Swain & Rebecca Clarke (of course). With violist Jenny Lewisohn in Harlow, Essex. Tomorrow Friday 21st Nov, 1pm
Avril Coleridge-Taylor is one of Gramophone's five recommended albums for this week!! Right up there alongside Vikingur Olafsson & Nicola Benedetti, she would have LOVED that @jkaconductor.bsky.social @resonus.bsky.social www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-mu...
The five new classical albums to hear this week – featuring Víkingur Ólafsson and Nicola Benedetti
This week sees new recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Schubert's piano duets, and orchestral music by Avril Coleridge-Taylor
www.gramophone.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Avril Coleridge-Taylor is one of Gramophone's five recommended albums for this week!! Right up there alongside Vikingur Olafsson & Nicola Benedetti, she would have LOVED that @jkaconductor.bsky.social @resonus.bsky.social www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-mu...
Why does Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserve to be heard? Samantha Ege writes about her experience playing the Piano Concerto, out today on @resonus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard
The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist lo...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Why does Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserve to be heard? Samantha Ege writes about her experience playing the Piano Concerto, out today on @resonus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.
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Delighted to see this out there. When @leahbroad.bsky.social was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything in the summer, we touched on the work of Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Link here: firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/24/f...
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Delighted to see this out there. When @leahbroad.bsky.social was on my textcast #FirstLastAnything in the summer, we touched on the work of Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Link here: firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/08/24/f...
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Not one, but TWO Coleridge-Taylor discs released today! One featuring the orchestral works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; the other, nearly all premiere recordings of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's orchestral works. Check them out! You won't be disappointed.
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Not one, but TWO Coleridge-Taylor discs released today! One featuring the orchestral works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; the other, nearly all premiere recordings of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's orchestral works. Check them out! You won't be disappointed.
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!!!! The very first album ever dedicated to Avril Coleridge-Taylor. This has been such a labour of love - please do listen to it, her music deserves to be heard @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
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Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard
The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist lo...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social
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Counting down to Friday's Avril Coleridge-Taylor Release! Sadly, we couldn't use this artwork (by the firstborn) officially, as the original photograph that inspired it is still in copyright, but I think you can still enjoy it.... @leahbroad.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Counting down to Friday's Avril Coleridge-Taylor Release! Sadly, we couldn't use this artwork (by the firstborn) officially, as the original photograph that inspired it is still in copyright, but I think you can still enjoy it.... @leahbroad.bsky.social
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If you're in the UK, tune in to @BBC Radio 3's #InTune programme today to hear pianist Samantha Ege talk about her forthcoming release of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you're in the UK, tune in to @BBC Radio 3's #InTune programme today to hear pianist Samantha Ege talk about her forthcoming release of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
Pre-order the CD now👉https://bit.ly/4oQIvSa
Pre-save the album👉https://orcd.co/brx5gxg
New York folks, I'll be in NYC in January. I'd love to get coffee with music/writing/performance folks, especially if you'd be interested in collaborating! Please drop me a note if you'd like to say hi 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New York folks, I'll be in NYC in January. I'd love to get coffee with music/writing/performance folks, especially if you'd be interested in collaborating! Please drop me a note if you'd like to say hi 🙂
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This week I'm tackling why creative women need to be allowed to fail.
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Why creative women need to fail
Hear me out here.
leahbroad.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This week I'm tackling why creative women need to be allowed to fail.
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
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ps @leahbroad.bsky.social’s newsletter this week about how creative women/women composers should be given the space to fail resonated deeply.
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ps @leahbroad.bsky.social’s newsletter this week about how creative women/women composers should be given the space to fail resonated deeply.
This week I'm tackling why creative women need to be allowed to fail.
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Why creative women need to fail
Hear me out here.
leahbroad.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This week I'm tackling why creative women need to be allowed to fail.
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
Women composers have been judged as women first and artists second for too long. It hampers creativity, and does nobody any credit to make gender such an important part of listening.
leahbroad.substack.com/p/why-creati...
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The new single from the album of Orchestral Works by Avril Coleridge-Taylor is featured on @applemusic #applemusicclassical 'Relaxing Classics' playlist.
Listen now👉 music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Samantha Ege, piano @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social
Listen now👉 music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Samantha Ege, piano @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The new single from the album of Orchestral Works by Avril Coleridge-Taylor is featured on @applemusic #applemusicclassical 'Relaxing Classics' playlist.
Listen now👉 music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Samantha Ege, piano @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social
Listen now👉 music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Samantha Ege, piano @jkaconductor.bsky.social @tomedney.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social
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This was such a wonderful project to be part of!
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This was such a wonderful project to be part of!