Leah Broad Explained

Leah Broad
Honorific Suffix:FRHistS
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:University of Oxford
Subject:Music history, Women's history

Leah Broad is a British writer, broadcaster, and researcher at Christ Church, Oxford.[1] She was awarded the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for contemporary British arts journalism[2] and was a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2016[3] She is a trustee of the William Alwyn Foundation.[4] Her writing focuses on the history of women in the arts.[5] Her group biography, Quartet, published by Faber and Faber, won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Storytelling Prize,[6] won the Presto Music Book of the Year award,[7] was shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography prize,[8] and was awarded a Kirkus star.[9]

Early life and education

Broad completed an undergraduate degree in Music at Christ Church, Oxford, where she ran the Christ Church Music Society[10] and founded and edited the Oxford Culture Review.[11] She holds a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford on Swedish and Finnish theatre music.[12]

Writing and presenting

Broad's debut group biography, Quartet, covers the lives of women composers Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Doreen Carwithen, and Dorothy Howell.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] The book argues that women have had important influences on classical composition, but that this progress is not linear and can be erased and forgotten.[19] Broad has discussed the book at festivals including the Hay Festival[20] and Edinburgh International Book Festival.[21] Alongside violinist Fenella Humphreys and pianist Nicola Eimer, Broad presented performances of works by the composers covered in the book at venues including the Barbican Centre.[22] She has a second book under contract with Faber and Faber.[23]

Broad has presented for BBC Radio 3 including appearances on Record Review, Composer of the Week, Music Matters, the Sunday Feature, and the BBC Proms.[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] Broad's journalistic work covering music and the arts has featured in newspapers including The Guardian, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books.[29] [30] [31] Broad's academic work has been published in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music & Letters, Tempo, and Music and the Moving Image as well as collected volumes from the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Boydell and Brewer.[32]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leah Broad. 2023-11-19. Faber and Faber.
  2. News: 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winner announced. The Observer . Robert McCrum . 2016-02-28 . 2023-11-19.
  3. News: New Generation Thinkers 2016. BBC . 2023-11-19.
  4. Web site: The William Alwyn Foundation . Charity Commission for England and Wales . 2023-11-19.
  5. Web site: People: Dr. Leah Broad . Leah Broad . Christ Church, University of Oxford . 2023-11-19.
  6. Web site: 2024 RPS Awards winners announced . Royal Philharmonic Society . 2024-05-24.
  7. Web site: Books of the Year - Winner 2023 . Presto Music . 2024-05-24.
  8. Web site: Broad and Cargill-Martin among Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize shortlist . . 2024-05-24.
  9. Web site: Quartet - A stellar work of social and music history sprinkled with emotional dashes of love, sex, and politics . . 2023-11-19.
  10. News: Interview: Leah Broad, music lecturer, Oxford . Terence Handley MacMath . Church Times . 2023-11-19.
  11. Web site: Contributors . The Oxford Culture Review . 2023-11-19.
  12. Nordic incidental music: between modernity and modernism . Leah Broad . Oxford University Press . 2017 . 2023-11-19.
  13. Where Are the Women Composers? . George B. Stauffer . The New York Review . 2023-10-05 . 2023-11-19.
  14. News: The Muses at a football match . Flora Willson . 2023-03-10 . 2023-11-19 . Times Literary Supplement.
  15. News: Did these four female composers really change music history? . Ivan Hewett . 2023-02-27 . The Telegraph . 2023-11-19.
  16. News: Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World . Annalena McAfee . 2023-02-21 . Financial Times . 2023-11-19.
  17. News: Quartet by Leah Broad: The four female composers that history forgot . The Sunday Times . 2023-02-05 . 2023-11-19 . Alexandra Cochlan.
  18. News: Quartet by Leah Broad review - Britain's great female composers . 2023-03-01 . Erica Jeal . The Guardian . 2023-11-19.
  19. Interview Q&A with Leah Broad Author of Quartet . The London Magazine.
  20. Web site: Leah Broad and Alice Farnham talk to Gavin Plumley . 2023-06-04 . Hay Festival . 2023-11-19.
  21. Web site: Leah Broad: Singing Women's Praises. 2023-08-24 . Edinburgh International Book Festival . 2023-11-19 .
  22. Web site: Fenella Humphreys & Leah Broad Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World . The Barbican . 2023-11-05 . 2023-11-19.
  23. Faber bags feminist history of trailblazing composers . 2022-12-02 . Ruth Comerford . . 2023-11-19.
  24. Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Mark Simpson and Andrew McGregor . BBC Radio 3 . 2023-11-19.
  25. Composer of the Week: Doreen Carwithen . BBC Radio 3 . 2022-11-21 . 2023-11-19.
  26. International Women's Day Celebrations . BBC Radio 3 . 2023-03-04 . 2023-11-19.
  27. Hidden Women and Silenced Scores . BBC Radio 3 . 2023-08-13 . 2023-11-19.
  28. BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 13: Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers . 2022-07-24 . 2023-11-19 . BBC Radio 3.
  29. News: Fashion, fabrics and fishtails – why we need to talk about what female classical performers wear . Leah Broad . The Guardian . 2022-04-19 . 2022-11-19.
  30. News: Leah Broad . Financial Times . 2023-11-19.
  31. Web site: Leah Broad . London Review of Books . 2023-11-19.
  32. Web site: Leah Broad: Quartet . 2023-09-24 . Hidden Notes . 2023-11-19.

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