Staff and trustees

Two musicians, one holding a natural horn and wearing a pair of gloves covered with LEDs and wires, look intently at a laptop together.

Our team

  • Holly Beasley Garrigan, a woman with light skin tone dark brown hair wearing a bright yellow/orange shirt. She also wears bright red lipstick.

    Holly Beasley-Garrigan

    Artist Development Coordinator
  • Siobhan Clough, a woman with light skin tone and long brown hair holding her violin and smiling warmly

    Siobhan Clough

    Assistant Music Director
  • Lloyd Coleman, a man with light skin tone, glasses and short blonde hair. He wears a grey t-shirt with two chains around his neck.

    Lloyd Coleman

    Associate Music Director
  • Ailie DeBonnaire, a woman with light skin tone, shoulder-length dark brown hair smiles warmly

    Ailie deBonnaire

    Producer
  • Lauren Edwards, a woman with light skin tone and dark brown hair wearing a white top is looking at the camera and smiling warmly.

    Lauren Edwards

    Marketing Assistant
  • Helen-Edwards, a woman with light skin tone and shoulder length red hair wearing a navy jumper and a brightly coloured necklace. Her arms are folded and she smiles widely.

    Helen Edwards

    Senior Producer (Artist Development)
  • Laura Evans, a woman with light skin tone, long dark brown hair fading to blond with a heavy side swept fringe. She wears a black top and is smiling widely. The background behind her is green.

    Laura Evans

    Head of Communications
  • Caitlin Fairweather, a woman with medium-light skin tone, long straight dark hair, a heavy fringe and long eyelashes. She wears a black cardigan over a black vest top with a closed smile.

    Caitlin Fairweather

    Assistant Producer

  • Jonathan Harper

    Chief Executive
  • Charles Hazlewood, a man with light skin and short hair wearing a black jumper and light blue jeans, is standing in the centre of a rehearsal space conducting four musicians who are surrounding him. He is focused and his right arm is raised in the air, motioning to the musicians. The rehearsal space is brightly lit.

    Charles Hazlewood

    Artistic Director
  • Ben Horton, a man with medium-light skin tone, short brown curly hair and a closed, warm smile. The background behind him is green.

    Ben Horton

    Marketing and Digital Comms Manager
  • Roberta Pia, a woman with light skin tone, blonde and lilac hair is wearing a black sweatshirt and gold chains. Roberta is smiling at the camera broadly.

    Roberta Pia

    Marketing Manager
  • Tiara Pillant, a woman with light skin tone, dark hair wearing a black jumper and necklace with a silver chain smiles broadly.

    Tiara Pillant

    Project Coordinator
  • Esther Poole, a woman with light skin tone, long dark blonde hair. She wears a black top, tortoiseshell glasses and a wide, friendly smile.

    Esther Poole

    General Manager
  • Hannah Williams Walton, a woman smiles and looks off to the left. She has a light skin tone, wide fringe, dark hair, a nose piercing and is wearing a striped top

    Hannah Williams Walton

    Programme Director (Deputy CEO)
  • Tom Wraith holds a cello and appears to be adjusting the strings. He is a man with a light skin tone and is wearing glasses, a burgundy coloured jumper and has a wide grin

    Tom Wraith

    Orchestra Manager

Our trustees

Giles Gibbons - Chair

Giles Gibbons is one of Europe’s leading thinkers on the evolving role of organisations in creating a stronger society for us all. For two decades, he has inspired and advised some of the world’s biggest names, to understand, innovate and act on the opportunity to spark social change. Giles is the Founder and CEO of Good Business, a strategy consultancy that works with organisations to be more progressive, and is working with some of the world’s most innovative foundations in delivering their programmes globally.

Clarence Adoo

Clarence’s career spans several decades and all forms of music, working with Royal Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Opera, City of London Sinfonia, London Sinfonietta and Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Symphony Orchestra. Despite a car accident which has left him paralysed from the shoulders down, Clarence retains a role with the Royal Northern Sinfonia as Education Animateur. He is a founder member of the British Paraorchestra and a member of the Headspace quartet.

Rylan Gleave

Rylan Gleave is a classically trained composer and vocalist working now in experimental and divergent fields. He explores intersectional marginalised identity in interdisciplinary collaboration, and draws on the timbres of his late-breaking trans-masc voice in various performance styles. Rylan is a member of Paraorchestra, JACK Studio, Ashenspire, and The Musician’s Company, and serves on the ABRSM Music Education Advisory Committee, and the Board of New Music Scotland. He has written for the Royal Philharmonic Society's Composers Programme, and Sound and Music's New Voices Programme, and was one of Paraorchestra’s Musicians in Residence 2022.

Jenny Grey

Jenny has a 30 year career advising some of the largest organisations in the world in communications, change and managing talent. Currently, Global Head of Culture and Talent Transformation at Citigroup, Jenny was previously Executive Director of Government Communications, leading from the heart of the UK government through economic and national security crises and championing campaigns to promote Britain overseas. Prior to that she led policy, advocacy and communications teams in Cancer Research UK and the NHS.

Kate Marsh

Kate is a disabled/Crip artist researcher. Kate’s practice-research specifically explores creating space for disabled/Crip and other marginalised artists. An Assistant Professor at C-DaRE she is formerly a performer with Candoco Dance company and guest performer with Paraorchestra, Fin Walker and Graeae Theatre Company. Kate has co-produced 3 films exploring the experience and perception of disabled artists, widely disseminated in the UK and internationally. Her academic work focusses on film as an impactful output for research. Recently Kate co-curated two short texts In Other Words 1 & 2 which bring together contributions from marginalised artists reflecting on their experience of the global pandemic.

Kevin Satizabal

Kevin is a pianist, composer, radio producer and digital communications professional. As a soloist and member of Paraorchestra and The Inner Vision Orchestra, Kevin has performed at leading concert venues such as the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre in London, Bristol Beacon, Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Opera House in Mumbai. He has worked in Digital Communications for Thomas Pocklington Trust, LOOK UK and the Royal Society for Blind Children. Kevin is currently a trainee radio producer at the BBC.

Zivi Sainsbury

Zivi is a musician, film composer and sound artist. She has recently composed a number of soundscapes and music for exhibitions including the art and films of Jonty Hurwitz and the Royal Society of Sculptors at the Brompton Cemetery.  She is currently curating in the emerging field of ecoacoustics and through 25 years of work as a trustee with Mark Leonard Trust, involved in a wide variety of philanthropic projects with organisations such as In Place of War Charity, Gideon Berger Studio and The Flying Seagull Circus.

James Mackenzie-Blackman

James Mackenzie-Blackman is an award-winning theatre producer, arts advocate and cultural sector leader. Following University in Liverpool James spent fourteen years working in London at Greenwich Theatre; the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; as Executive Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and then as Executive Director of Sir Matthew Bourne’s award-winning dance company New Adventures. In 2017 he was appointed Chief Executive of Eden Court, Scotland’s largest single-site arts venue. During his tenure James steered the company through a period of significant change and growth. James took up post as Chief Executive of the UK’s largest and best attended regional theatres, the Theatre Royal Plymouth in January 2022.