Kate Kennedy

Talking biography and all things life-writing with some fabulous writers and academics in 🇳🇴 #Norway, @USN_info — and being absolutely spoilt rotten by them! ✍️📚✨ #LifeWriting #Biography #WritersLife #AcademicLife #WritingCommunity #StorytellingMatters @OxLifeWriting

🏰 Our castle — home of the Tuscan life-writing retreat ✍️🍷 Can’t believe we’re into our fourth year already! #WritingRetreat #TuscanyRetreat #LifeWriting #WritersLife #CreativeRetreat #FourthYear #CastleLife #WritingCommunity #ItalyRetreat @OxLifeWriting @WritingOxford

One of the many reasons I ❤️ working in #Tuscany — the #Scampanata! 🇮🇹🎺 Craziest tradition? The whole town of #Anghiari gets up before 6am 🌅 and wakes up the last sleeper-in by covering them in flour, gunk, and a smelly fish 🐟💥 — then parades them through town #TuscanyLife

#Frogs #Vivaldi #Violin @WoodlandTrust @nationaltrust @froglifers @WildlifeTrusts @RainforestTrust

🌞 Happy Summer Everyone! If you're a follower, I’m excited to share upcoming videos, performances, and behind-the-scenes insights from my research and performance 🎶🎥 🔗 Website: drkatekennedy.com 📖 Book on Amazon: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound #Summer

I talk all things Vaughan Williams 🎼 with @GillianMoore10 🎙️ on Building a Library on @BBCRadio3's Record Review. Is Vaughn Williams’s 5th Symphony the most beautiful symphony ever written? 🤔🎻 It’s a strong contender. Our bit is at 1 hr 1 min! ⏱️ 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🐸 🎶 Midnight Bach with a chorus of #frogsand a glowing #tree dancer 🌳Having a lot of fun in the south of France… #wacky concerts! #MidnightConcert #BachAfterDark #SouthOfFranceVibes#FrogsAndFugues #SurrealPerformance

It’s been a crazily busy few weeks: concerts, talks, book launches and trips to Norway, Italy and France. More to follow but for now here are a few memories of our Oxford Writing Mentors writing course 🇮🇹📚 Thanks to the brilliant Julia Flynn Siler 🔗 juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/05/30/eat…

Unforgettable evening at No.30 Knightsbridge sharing the journey behind my book #Cello. Also celebrated the extraordinary work of the Museum of Music History. See this Instagram post by @30knightsbridge instagram.com/p/DLW6iY1MhUK/…

🎧 New Podcast! I'm featured on the latest episode of BYU Radio’s @ConstantWonder_ — available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! ✨ 🔗 byuradio.org/constant-wonder #NewPodcast #Cello #SpotifyPodcasts #ApplePodcasts #YouTubePodcast #Storytelling #PodcasterLife

Last night's evening sunlight over St Mary's in Hay - such a gorgeous venue! @hayfestival

📣 Thrilled to be performing at the @hayfestival tonight! 🎤✨ Join me today at 8.30pm for an evening of words, memory, and live music 🎶 featuring the brilliant cellist @cazziebev 🎻 🎟️ Tickets here: hayfestival.com/p-23329-kate-k… #HayFestival2025 #HayFestival #Cello

From the faded #Victorian splendour of the Grand Hotel in Folkestone to a great Parisian mansion preserved as a memorial once its Jewish family were deported - so moving to have Hermione Lee and @edmunddewaal in conversation. @WolfsonCollege @OxLifeWriting @engfac

A wonderful time performing our event with @cazziebev in Kent for the @sacconiquartet festival. We'll next be touring in #Wales this week, more to follow!

Bach, Cheryl Hoad and cello tales—what a way to start a Sunday in Kent! Tempted to hop on a train. Wishing everyone beautiful music and plenty of future stars.

Cocktails and crazy golf - getting the most from fabulous #Folkestone and the @sacconiquartet chamber music Festiva

Join me and @cazziebev in #Kent this Sunday 🎻 at the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival, 18 May at 11am! A morning of #Bach and @CherylHoad, with tales from my #Cello book woven together in a performance. 🌿✨ Under 25s go free! 🎟️ Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/sacconi-festiv… @sacconiquartet

A wonderful start to today’s study day, ‘Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects’ as @DrKKennedy challenges is us to ‘find the whispers’ of past lives behind objects.

✨ It’s a great pleasure to see my libretto come to life in Charlotte Bray’s #opera 'Making Arrangements'. Programmed for the @ROH_London 2025/26 season 🎭 originally commissioned by Tête à Tête with CHROMA 🎼 📣 Read more: rbo.org.uk/latest-news/ro… #ContemporaryOpera #OperaNews

📢 Book your tickets below and join me tomorrow to explore the life and music of the remarkable Pauline Viardot! ✨ 🗓️ Friday 25 April 2025, 6-6.45 PM 📍 @TrinityOxford, Levine Building 🎟️Book here: oxfordsong.org/events/pauline… @OxfordSong @OxMusicFaculty @UniofOxford