Katy Hamilton is a freelance researcher, writer and presenter on music. She has taught at the Royal College of Music and the Universities of Nottingham and Middlesex, and is a regular presenter and writer of programme notes and concert introductions. Her research specialism is the music of Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries, and she has also been involved in projects on history of the Edinburgh Festival, the role of émigré musicians in post-1945 British musical life, the songs of Schubert, and concert programming at the Wigmore Hall. More information is available on her website, here
Last week, I had the strange, exciting, and enjoyable experience of seeing my student days from the other side of the fence. Nine years after graduating from the University of Nottingham, first with a BA(Hons) and then a Masters in Music, I found myself back in the lecture theatre where I’d attended countless classes – only now I was the one doing the talking
