{{Short description|Scottish radio presenter and music journalist}}

'''Kate Molleson''' is a Scottish radio presenter and music journalist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters - Kate Molleson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5HkRyZPxhg0dydZ0GJVcTJ1/kate-molleson |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> She presents on BBC Radio 3.

== Education == Molleson grew up in various areas of Scotland, as well as in Canada's far north.<ref name=":0" /> She was interested in classical music as a child.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Jude |date=2022-07-04 |title=Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson review – a challenge to the gatekeepers of classical music |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/04/sound-within-sound-by-kate-molleson-review-a-challenge-to-the-gatekeepers-of-classical-music |access-date=2025-06-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She studied musicology at King's College London and clarinet performance at McGill University in Canada.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Kate Molleson |url=https://www.culturesummit.com/people/kate-molleson/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Edinburgh International Culture Summit |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Career == Molleson worked in several different roles for the ''Montreal Gazette'' up to 2010 at the latest,<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=To Break Even in Montreal {{!}} Montreal Gazette |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/to-break-even-in-montreal |access-date=16 November 2024 |website=Montreal Gazette}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> and was the deputy editor of ''Opera'' magazine, before returning to Scotland.<ref name=":0" /> She then began reviewing classical music for ''The Guardian'' in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kate Molleson {{!}} Page 25 of 25 {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kate-molleson?page=25 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Molleson presented BBC Radio 3 concerts from 2015 onwards<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22kate+molleson%22#top |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127123808/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22kate+molleson%22#top |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 27, 2024 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> and first presented ''Breakfast'' on BBC Radio 3 in May 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22kate+molleson%22+breakfast#top |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250224024436/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22kate+molleson%22+breakfast#top |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 24, 2025 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Molleson has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kate Molleson ← People ← Cafe OTO |url=https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/kate-molleson/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=www.cafeoto.co.uk}}</ref> In 2022, Molleson remained a commentator upon classical music and an observer of the broader classical music scene.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kate Molleson: 'Where we are at now is tokenism without thinking of the real context' |url=https://list.co.uk/news/kate-molleson-where-we-are-at-now-is-tokenism-without-thinking-of-the-real-context-42368 |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=The List |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2023, she began presenting some editions of ''Composer of the Week'' on BBC Radio 3,<ref>{{Cite web |last=canderson |date=2023-05-16 |title=Kate Molleson joins Donald Macleod on the Composer of the Week presenting team. |url=https://www.colinscolumn.com/kate-molleson-joins-donald-macleod-on-the-composer-of-the-week-presenting-team/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Colin's Column |language=en-GB}}</ref> with Donald Macleod presenting the other editions of the programme. Molleson also presents ''Music Matters'' on BBC Radio 3.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/kate-molleson-bbc-radio-3-quotes-male-female-composers-1235096000/|title=Quotas Should Be Introduced On Classical Music Radio Stations As Well As Concerts, Says BBC Presenter|first=Caroline|last=Frost|date=August 19, 2022|website=Deadline Hollywood}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Maria Joao Pires |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x3wp |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2025, a 40-episode series about radical or slightly radical composers from the 20th century, presented by Molleson and Gillian Moore, began to be broadcast on Radio 3.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=Hugh |date=2025-04-03 |title=Wrangling, Plunging |url=http://van-magazine.com/mag/twentieth-century-radicals-bbc-radio-three/ |access-date=2025-06-09 |website=VAN Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> Molleson has also presented ''Afternoon Concert and Hear and Now'' on BBC Radio 3.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert - Kate Molleson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5rx29d4RSF4PX3x7mWlKpwR/kate-molleson |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In 2022, Molleson's book ''Sound Within Sound''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Molleson |first=Kate |title=Sound Within Sound |publisher=Faber & Faber |year=2022 |publication-date=28 July 2022}}</ref> was published;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/faber-snaps-kate-mollesons-book-4-way-bidding-war-1181116|title=Faber snaps up Kate Molleson's book in four-way auction|website=The Bookseller}}</ref> it explores the stories of composers who defied and pushed against conventions in the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.pazaz.digital |first=PAZAZ {{!}} |title=Bath Box Office |url=https://bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/d1-kate-molleson-sound-within-sound |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=bathboxoffice.org.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref> The book is a collection of essays.<ref name=":2" />

== Personal life == Molleson lives in Edinburgh.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors – Dunedin Consort |url=https://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/about-us/board/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Other activities == Molleson sits on the board of directors of the Dunedin Consort,<ref name=":1" /> a UK-based baroque ensemble.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us – Dunedin Consort |url=https://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/about-us/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Publications == * ''Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century'' {{ISBN|978-0-7710-5166-1}}

==References== {{reflist}}

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