Making Music names new trustees

Membership association for leisure-time music, Making Music has appointed MARGARET HARRISON, JAYNE BARR, WILL PRIDEAUX and PHILIP O'RAWE as trustees.

Chair of Cheshire community choir, the Neston Singers, Harrison works at the Association of Independent Museums, a charity and membership organisation whose members are primarily small and volunteer-run.

Barr sings with the Hampstead Chamber Choir and plays alto sax and flute in a covers band. A marketing and communications specialist, she is Head of Brand and Creative at Middlesex University and a founder partner at data-led Insurtech start-up Adiona.

A long-standing trustee and Treasurer of Belfast chamber choir Cappella Caeciliana, O’Rawe has been co-opted to ensure Northern Ireland's members are represented on the board. He has worked as an IT manager in telecommunications and has experience as a representative in the Prospect trade union.

Prideaux leads the Peterborough Sings! charity and its four choirs. He specialises in the equal voices genre and has recently concluded a project supporting five lower-voice choirs to grow their membership through project-based recruitment. He also leads the Peterborough Music Hub singing strategy.

BARBARA EIFLER, Chief Executive of Making Music, said: "We are very lucky in that our members come from all kinds of professional backgrounds, and so our board is able to benefit from their day job experience as well as their passion for music and understanding of leisure-time music groups.

"Once again, members have selected an interesting cross-section of fellow members to represent them, and we look forward to working with them over the next three years."