Dr. Katy Hamilton is one of the UK’s most sought-after speakers and writers on music. She gives frequent talks for a host of organisations including the BBC Proms, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Hall and Oxford International Song Festival. In addition, she writes programme notes for the Salzburg Festival, Philharmonia Orchestra and Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, as well as a range of European record labels.
She has also published widely on the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writing for both academic and general readers. She worked as Graham Johnson’s research assistant for his monumental Franz Schubert: The Songs and their Poets (Yale University Press, 2014) and is co-editor and contributor to Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Brahms in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Katy is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and is increasingly in demand as a panel host and interviewer, working over the past few years with Mark-Anthony Turnage, James MacMillan, Caroline Shaw, Bushra El-Turk, Judith Weir, Davone Tines and Pekka Kuusisto. She is also the interviewer in residence for the 2024 and 2026 editions of the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale. Katy teaches music history classes at City Lit and has also offered short online courses via the British Library. She is also an expert lecturer for Martin Randall Travel.
