Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. Molleson was raised in Scotland and in Whitehorse and is a graduate of McGill University. She lives in Edinburgh.
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Think of a composer right now. Was it a white man? Perhaps in old-fashioned clothing and wild hair? The music history we're taught is one dominated by men, and even then, only a select few enter the zeitgeist. This conventional history perpetuates the myt... SEE MORE