Directing the Leadership in Music Education programs, external partnerships and projects, driving public policy, research, sponsorship and corporate communication activities for ABRSM - the UK’s largest music education body, one of its largest music publishers and the world’s leading provider of music exams, offering assessments to more than 630,000 candidates in 93 countries every year.

The Music Education Council exists to bring together and provide a forum for member organisations to debate issues affecting music education and to make representation and promote appropriate action at local, national and international level.

Extensive work throughout the United Kingdom and overseas, creating new work in primary, secondary, further and higher education, with business, through community and family based projects and with the outreach programmes of orchestras, opera companies, art galleries, dance schools and arts organisations.Key AchievementsConductor of Wish You Were Here during the 2012 BBC Proms, a work by Jason Yarde and Ian MacMillan performed by the Proms Family Orchestra and guestsDirector of PK during the 2010 BBC Proms, a work written by Graham Fitkin and performed by the Proms Family Orchestra alongside the BBC Concert OrchestraComposer of The Rough Guide, performed during the 2009 BBC Proms by the Proms Family Orchestra with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra guests

Responsible for leading this respected music education charity with a forty year history through a new phase of its artistic, educational and business development. Music for Youth (MFY) has an annual £1m turnover and provides inspirational performance and audience opportunities for 100,000 young people each year across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Key Achievements Restructuring, retaining, rejuvenating, recruiting and relocating the MFY management, board of trustees and music mentor teams Developing relationships with government, key sponsors, supporters, trusts and foundations which have contributed towards stabilising and building a £1m turnoverTransforming events into an artistically driven festival series, drawing in new partners and participants by reputationProgramming the annual Schools Prom concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Three nights of high quality, eclectic, extraordinary and ambitious music making from young people that have included world premieres from BBC Young Composers Establishing new sponsorship and funding agreements with Classic FM, Creative Scotland, Royal Albert Hall, Vivendi, GLA, Allianz Insurance, Rock School and Future PublishingLaunching a new website mfy.org.uk, a new MFY brand concept, an alumni campaign and programme of individual giving

Learning Consultant, BBC PromsLearning Manager, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Member of the orchestra’s Senior Management Team involved in overarching management, programming, planning and broadcast decisions as well as initiating and evolving a distinctive local, national and international learning programme for the orchestra and chorus. Working alongside BBC Proms team in originating, integrating and implementing new audience, engagement and artistic initiatives within this world-famous festival. Key AchievementsCulture change of orchestra, chorus and production teams through influence and through developing programmes of professional developmentRepresenting all BBC Orchestra Learning Managers in fundraising opportunities, TV collaborations, internal advocacy and in negotiating terms and conditions for learning work with the Musicians’ UnionProgramming Diverse Orchestras - innovative live performance and broadcasts bringing together musicians young and old, amateur and professional, to work with performers from Indonesia, Africa, Iran, South America, Turkey and MoroccoLeading an innovative orchestral learning programme which over four years took inspiration from the eclectic repertoires of composers from John Adams to Sophia Gubaidulina and from John Cage to James MacMillan; toured overseas in collaboration with the British Council, featured in radio and TV broadcasts and gave hundreds of performancesCommissioning radical and innovative work for BBC Proms including Turn on the Light from Orlando Gough (2006) and He is armoured without from Peter Wiegold (2008)