Leah Broad
Journalist, BBC Music Magazine
Leah is the author of 'Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World'. Currently a Junior Research Fellow at Church Church, University of Oxford, Leah researches the people and music at the margins of history. She was a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.
Recent articles by Leah Broad
Imogen Holst - why Gustav's self-effacing daughter deserves the spotlight in her own right
Her devotion to others was admirable, but this modest composer should be celebrated for her own considerable talents, says Leah Broad
Rebecca Clarke: viola virtuoso and chamber music adventurer
Equally accomplished as a performer and composer, Rebecca Clarke took many by surprise with her finest masterpiece, as Leah Broad explains
Carwithen, Doreen
She put her career aside to promote that of her husband, William Alwyn - but Doreen Carwithen was a composer with an utterly captivating style all her own
Gipps, Ruth
Prodigiously gifted and fearlessly determined, Ruth Gipps’s significant impact on British music is still to be fully appreciated, argues Leah Broad