Leah Broad is an award-winning music writer and historian. She is the author of Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World, a group biography of four women composers — Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen. Currently a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, she was the winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, and was selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2016.
Previewing her commemorative concerts after winning the 2020 Suntory Music Award, Hisako Kawamura talks about performing some rarely heard gems from Rebecca Clarke and Amy Beach.
