Kate Molleson

Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster who presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Her articles are published in The Guardian, The New Statesman, Prospect, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. Her documentaries (BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service) have investigated music in Greenland, opera in Mongolia, lost recordings of Arabic classical music, and the Ethiopian nun/pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. She was a music critic and cycling columnist for the Montreal Gazette and deputy editor of Opera magazine before returning home as The Guardian’s classical music critic in 2010. She lives in Edinburgh.