Kimberley Taylor - Choreographer
Kimberley Taylor is a dancer and choreographer. She discovered her passion for performing at an early age and was determined to succeed, despite her parents reservations about dancing not being a proper...
Amy Worsfield - Creative Learning Intern
Amy's job is to bring music to people who are not typical concert-goers. Her inspirational singing teacher led her to apply to the Royal College of Music rather than following a route into medicine. She...
Vicki Burke - Musician
Vicki Burke is a musician, music teacher and music healer. After being given a clarinet at the age of seven by her father, she realised that this, rather than education, was where her passion lay. At the...
Eric Lau - Music Producer
Eric Lau is a music producer and also head of music at Rolling Sound. He did a degree in business studies, but his best friend's suicide changed his outlook on life. "Came across music and then realised...
Suzanne Parry - Professional Composer
Suzanne Parry is a Composer doing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Despite being told by a teacher at school that she would never make it, she says "I am a musician, there was never anything else".
Pippa Ricketts - Concerts Assistant
Pippa was passionate about playing the violin from an early age and was a confident performer at school. Her father's illness led her to re-appraise what she wanted from life and she decided against an...
Hannah Donat - Concerts Director
Hannah recognised from an early age that although she was passionate about music, she was not good enough to be a professional musician. So she looked for opportnities to be involved in the music industry....
David Butcher - Chief Executive
David is CEO of the Britten Sinfonia. He looks after both the artistic and business sides of the orchestra. He has a history degree but has always loved music and became very involved with music at University....
Ed Aldcroft - Project Musician
Ed Aldcroft teaches people of all ages to sing at the Sage in Gateshead. "Nina Simone was the person that really got me into music, full stop. When I was about six, my dad used to play it on the car radio."...
Sharon Durant - Vocal Leader & Teacher
Sharon Durant is a Songwriter and Vocal Leader at the Sage in Gateshead. She describes her job as helping people to sing. Her passion is singing. But parental pressure led her to do a degree in science...
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