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Kate Kennedy (writer)
Kate Kennedy (born 24 September 1977) is a British biographer, academic and BBC broadcaster, who specialises in the literature and music of the First World War.[1] She is the associate director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at the University of Oxford.[2] Early life and educationBorn in Bristol, Kennedy attended the specialist music school, Wells Cathedral School, where she studied as a cellist. In 1996 she commenced studying Music and then English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Despite a severe arm injury which affected her career as a cellist, in 2000 she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied for a postgraduate diploma in advanced performance. She then completed a master's degree in twentieth century literature at King's College London, and freelanced as a baroque cellist in London, helping to found the orchestra Southbank Sinfonia with its founder-conductor Simon Over[3] before returning to Cambridge in 2005 where she completed a PhD at Clare Hall on the World War I poet and composer Ivor Gurney.[4] CareerKennedy has lectured in music and English at Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a Katherine Jex-Blake Research Fellowship as well as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.[5][6] In 2016 she became a member of the English faculty at Oxford University, where she is associate director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at Wolfson College (founded by Professor Dame Hermione Lee in 2011), and holds a research fellowship in Life-Writing.[2] Her 2024 book, Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound, tells the story of cellists Amedeo Baldovino (1916–1998), Pál Hermann (1902–1944), Lise Cristiani (1827–1853), and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), and their cellos.[7] Selected bibliography
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