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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · 29d

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...

www.musicmark.org.uk

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Aug 1

The launch will explore the learning presented within the course and bring together a range of music industry experts to discuss their experiences of promoting women’s music.

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Aug 1

Women Transforming Classical Music is a free, online course aimed at supporting performers and classical music ensembles and organisations to diversify their repertoire by programming more music by women composers (historical and contemporary).

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

Women Transforming Classical Music Launch

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thank you!

Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Jun 11

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 ...

www.open.edu

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

Embodied Monologues – Research Series 2021/2022

www.embodiedmonologues.com

Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Apr 10

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) 🎶

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Apr 4

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 🎶

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 29

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)

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 26

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

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 17

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!

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Archiv Frau und Musik @archivfraumusik.bsky.social · Mar 13

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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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 8

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

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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

Book cover: The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Edited by Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors.

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 1

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 🎶

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Mar 1

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

Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Feb 14

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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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · Feb 3

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

www.rma.ac.uk

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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Jan 29

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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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · Jan 9

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.

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