Episode 5: Dr. Danielle Padley (University of Cambridge)

The fifth episode of Season 3 of The Sounding Jewish Podcast features Dr. Danielle Padley. We discuss how she came to the field of Jewish music studies, and her ongoing work on the music of Jewish communities in Victorian Britain.

Dr. Danielle Padley is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and regularly contributes to the Faculty of Music. Her research explores professional and amateur music-making activities of Jewish communities in Victorian England. Danielle’s published work includes articles in Music & Letters, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and the British Institute of Organ Studies Journal, and a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership. Until 2023 she was Musical Director of Kol Echad, Cambridge's Hebrew choir, and has also been Deputy Musical Director of the Edgware and District Reform Synagogue choir. Trained in musical theatre performance, outside of academia Danielle regularly performs in theatrical productions and is a member of local folk band Once Again, in which she sings and plays piano, violin and folk harp.