Kate Molleson
Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents 大象传媒 Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert.
A writer for The Guardian and The Herald, Kate also contributes to Opera, Gramophone and 大象传媒 Music Magazine and was commissioning editor of Dear Green Sounds, a history of Glasgow’s music venues commissioned by UNESCO.
Her radio documentaries (大象传媒 Radio 4, 大象传媒 World Service) include a portrait of Ethiopian nun/pianist/composer Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and a two-part feature on Mongolian opera.
She 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 Glasgow.
