Kate Molleson

Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters. 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. Her articles are published in the Guardian, the Herald, BBC Music magazine, Opera, Gramophone, and elsewhere. She was commissioning editor of Dear Green Sounds, a history of Glasgow's music venues commissioned by UNESCO. She teaches music journalism at Darmstadt and Dartington.

Kate grew up in various parts of Scotland and the far north of Canada and studied clarinet performance at McGill University (Montreal) and musicology at King's College London, where she researched the operas of Ezra Pound. She was a copy editor, music critic, and cycling columnist for the Montreal Gazette and deputy editor of Opera magazine before moving home to Scotland as the Guardian's classical music critic in 2010. She lives in Edinburgh.