CITY MUSIC FOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Founder and Chairman of Naisbitt King Asset Management Limited ( NKAML ) and Alderman for the Ward of Queenhithe
Bartosz is a City Music Foundation Artist and has received numerous awards from the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Biddy Baxter and John Hosier Music Trust, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. He was selected to be part of the ‘Open Space' residency at Snape Maltings in 2016 and recently won the ‘Sir John Manduell Prize' at the Bromsgrove International Competition.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Managing Director, London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel joined the team as Assistant to the Managing Director, combining his writing and research work for City Music Foundation with a career as a freelance countertenor.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder of CMF
- Director of Ludlow Song
Clare is a co-founder of CMF (along with Sir Roger Gifford) and has been a Trustee since the beginning, before taking the helm in 2015.
Clare is also a director of Ludlow Song and a trustee of Two Moors Festival. She is a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Clare has hugely enjoyed the opportunity to make this career change from medicine to music.
As a concerto soloist, Emily has appeared with orchestras worldwide including the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Queensland Symphony and Canberra Symphony Orchestras in Australia; Arlington Symphony, Arizona Symphony and Garland Symphony Orchestras in USA; Shanghai Youth Orchestra and Qingdao Symphony Orchestra in China; European Union Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Royal Wallonie and Orchestre de Chambre Namur in Europe.
An active chamber musician, Emily has collaborated with musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Gary Hoffman, Miguel da Silva, Marc Coppey, Danny Driver, Gemma Rosefield and is regularly invited to perform at music festivals across Europe.
As a teen, Emily shot to national fame after being featured in the acclaimed award-winning Australian documentary ‘Mrs Carey's Concert'. Her media presence continues as the ABC Artist-in-Residence, BBC Introducing Artist, with regular broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Three (UK), Kol Hamusica (Israel), WXQR (USA), and Musiq 3 (Belgium).
Emily studied with Dr Robin Wilson at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music, London and Augustin Dumay at Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Belgium. She received mentoring from Pinchas Zukerman, Maxim Vengerov and Ivry Gitlis. Emily is an Assistant Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music, London.
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- Communications & Events Manager
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- Lotte Betts Dean to Perform in Oxford International Song Festival
Helena Kay is a tenor saxophonist and composer based in London. Originally from Perth, Scotland, she moved to London in 2012 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2016 with a First Class Degree in BMus Jazz (Hons). During her time studying, she was awarded the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year Award (2015). In 2021, she was selected to become a City Music Foundation Artist.
City Music Foundation is delighted for jazz saxophonist Helena Kay, who has picked up the Best Instrumentalist Award at the 10th Scottish Jazz Awards. Winners were honoured at Glasgow venue The Savings Bank on Thursday night as the event applauded stand-out musical endeavours.
City Music Foundation Artist Helena Kay will join a line up including Tommy Smith, pianists Fergus McCreadie and Brian Kellock, guitarist Graeme Stephen, drummer Tom Bancroft and singer Georgia Cécile are among the leading names included in the programme at the Rose Theatre in Edinburgh's colourful Rose Street from Friday 4th to Monday 28th August.
Kate Gee is a Psychologist and Research Fellow in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and an honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London.
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- Artist, Will Perform at This Year 's Leeds Lieder Festival. Lotte Will Perform a Late - Night Electroacoustic Concert on Saturday 10th June 2023.
- Associate Artist With Southbank Sinfonia
- Dean Performance Review
Australian mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is a versatile and dynamic concert artist, whose performance experience encompasses opera, oratorio, contemporary music, art song recital/chamber music, early music and non-classical collaborations. She has been based in London since 2014 and works internationally, most often in the UK and Australia.
Lotte is Associate Artist with Southbank Sinfonia, and is a member of London-based contemporary music group Ensemble x.y. She is also a City Music Foundation Artist for 2017-2019, recently won the 2019 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, and was selected as a 2020 Samling Young Artist. Lotte is a regular collaborator with guitarist Andrey Lebedev with whom she won the inaugural 2018 New Elizabethan Award. Lotte is one 2018 bursars with the Imogen Cooper Music Trust and in 2019 became a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
As singing plunged by turn into whispering or guttural groaning, Betts-Dean manoeuvred unflustered between registers and vocal modes with an unbroken sense of line and an unmissable, urgent musicality - Flora Willson, The Guardian
In the UK, Lotte has performed at venues including Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, St Martin In The Fields, Cadogan Hall, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Wallace Collection, Handel & Hendrix House, St James' Palace and Colston Hall Bristol, and festival appearances include Buxton International Festival, Cheltenham Festival, Barbican Centre Sound Unbound, Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, Llandeilo Fawr Festival, Lewes Festival of Song, Two Moors Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Oxford Lieder, Norfolk & Norwich, Gower Festival and Dartington Festival. She has appeared with several UK and European ensembles including Manchester Collective, Choir of London, English Chamber Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, La Vaghezza and the Heritage Orchestra/DJ Pete Tong.
Lotte has been a prize winner in several competitions, most recently winning the 2019 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. She also won the 2018 inaugural Musicians Company New Elizabethan Award alongside Andrey Lebedev, and the 2017 Southbank Sinfonia Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award. In 2017 Lotte also reached the semi finals of the Das Lied International Song Competition in Heidelberg as well as the Wigmore Hall Song Competition alongside pianist Hannah Harnest. Prior to moving to London, Lotte won several awards and competitions in Australia including the Acclaim Awards MCM Prize (2014), the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria (2012), the Mietta Song Competition (2012) the National Liederfest (2012, 2017) and several prizes while a student at Melbourne Conservatorium.
Lotte Betts-Dean sings works for solo amplified voice with electronics, from groundbreaking 20th-century works by Scelsi, Feldman and Schwitters to 21st-century pieces that draw on medieval plainchant, experimental hip-hop and breakcore, including works by Mathis Saunier, Stuart MacRae, Linda Buckley and Erin Gee. Receiving its highly-charged début at the Aldeburgh Festival last year, Voice Electric is in part a tribute to Lotte's lifelong fascination with electronic music, as well as a reflection and celebration of the medium of solo voice and fixed electronic audio in modern composition.
Lotte Betts-Dean, a 2017 City Music Foundation Artist, will perform at this year's Leeds Lieder Festival. Lotte will perform a late-night electroacoustic concert on Saturday 10th June 2023.
Milly joined the team in September 2022 as the Communications & Events Manager on a freelance basis.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Composer, Artistic Director of Deal Festival and Former Director of Music at QMUL
Actuary Peter works on overseas pension plan design in developing countries in association with Callund Consulting.
Peter became founder editor of The Actuary magazine from 1990 and chairs its Advisory Panel to this day.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Editor, London Jazz News
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Susan Blum, Management Consultant, individual and team coach and workplace mediator
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Alastair King, Founder and Chairman of Naisbitt King Asset Management Limited (NKAML) and Alderman for the Ward of Queenhithe
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- Banker
- Our Founding Chairman
When Roger was preparing for his year as Lord Mayor, he and his wife Clare, who met singing in the Holst singers in the world premiere of Tavener's Veil of the Temple, wanted their Lord Mayor's Appeal to support a musical charity - and ended up founding City Music Foundation to fulfil their vision. CMF's mission, ‘turning talent into success', was in part realised through combining two strands of the City's greatest areas of excellence - culture and finance - providing mentoring in the business of music for emerging artists.
Sir Roger Gifford, banker and champion of green finance, Lord Mayor of London 2012-13, accomplished amateur musician and tireless supporter of music and musicians, died aged 65 in May 2021 from multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. He leaves a great legacy - in climate-linked financial services, and in the world of music.
Stephen is a seasoned CEO who has built several successful tech-based businesses.
A seasoned CEO who has built several successful tech-based businesses, Stephen now specialises in board-level leadership where he can apply his knowledge to the application of technology, especially in addressing the challenges of climate change. Stephen acts as an advisor and Non-Executive Director to a number of companies; as well as being a Trustee of RoSPA (The Royal Society for the prevention of Accidents). He has been actively involved in the life of the City of London for many years and is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights, a City Livery Company. He enjoys listening to all kinds of music and is passionate about supporting young people to make the best of their talents. Stephen lives in Hampshire and enjoys outdoor sports including golf, and skiing.
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- Management Consultant
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Team Coach
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- CEO, Barts Heritage
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Board Member of Quantessence Limited