Making Music announces election of four new Board members

Making Music is a membership association and therefore nine of its trustees are elected by and from the membership. Board elections take place prior to the Annual General Meeting and this year the three vacancies were contested by nine nominees. 

We’re delighted to announce the successful candidates: 

Margaret Harrison is the Chair of the Neston Singers, a community choir in Cheshire. She works at the Association of Independent Museums, also a membership association of small independent organisations. 

Jayne Barr is a singer with the Hampstead Chamber Choir in London and plays alto sax and flute in a rock’n’roll cover band. She brings expertise in marketing and advertising to the skills mix of the Board. 

Will 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 its membership through project-based recruitment. 

Making Music is also able to co-opt trustees, to complement the elected Board members. This year, Philip O’Rawe has been co-opted to ensure members in Northern Ireland are represented on the Board. 

Philip O’Rawe is a long-standing Trustee and Treasurer of Cappella Caeciliana, a chamber choir based in Belfast, and brings his professional IT experience as well as years of advocacy as a union representative to the Board.

Rhiannon Harrison, Chair of Making Music, said:

‘We are so fortunate as a Board to have four excellent new additions joining us this year. Jayne, Philip, Margaret and Will are bringing a fantastic range of skills and knowledge to the Board and we thank them in advance for their service.’ 

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.' 

Find out more about our Board members  

For more information contact press@makingmusic.org.uk

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Notes to editors

Since 1935, Making Music has championed leisure-time music groups across the UK with practical services, artistic development opportunities and by providing a collective voice for its members. We now represent over 4,000 groups of around 228,000 musicians of all types, genres and abilities. We help them run their group so they can get on with making music! makingmusic.org.uk