ABOUT
Hattie Butterworth is a writer, speaker, cellist and mental health campaigner based in London. She studied the cello at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal College of Music until moving into arts journalism.
Hattie is the Editor of Choir & Organ and Opera Now Magazines, and a contributing writer for parent magazine Gramophone. As Editor, Hattie has overseen numerous partnerships including an inaugural media partnership with the Three Choirs Festival. She is committed to providing a bridge between audiences and performers, commissioning and writing investigations, opinion pieces and a mental health campaign for opera singers.
As a writer, Hattie’s work has been published by The Standard, Gramophone Magazine, The Strad and Royal Opera & Ballet Magazine. She has also written programme note interviews for English National Opera and liner notes for Decca Classics and Signum. Read some of Hattie’s work here.
Until 2026 Hattie was the founder and co-host of podcast Things Musicians Don’t Talk About, which was launched in 2020 as a space to share honestly about the reality of musician’s lives. The podcast was supported by the Royal Society of Musicians with whom they curated a live podcast event series, Resonate. Explore the talks here.
As a speaker and campaigner, Hattie has contributed to features on BBC Radio 1, Radio 3, the BBC World Service and co-hosts the Gramophone Classical Music Podcast. She also took part in a Take Me To The Opera documentary on Kiri Te Kanawa for the BBC News TV channel. As a jury host, Hattie has chaired talks as part of the Three Choirs Festival, Exhibition Road Festival at the V&A and for Finite Films & TV, and was on the panel for the 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Opera Award.
She is committed to empowering younger culture writers and critics, and has mentored writers through criticism, taking on investigations, podcasting and interview technique. She has given talks on her work in cultural journalism at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music.
When she’s not working, Hattie enjoys walking, reading non-fiction and researching. She is often learning weird things for the sake of it, knows a lot of Eminem raps, enjoys sauna, cold water swimming and Sumatran coffee.
