Ambassadors and advisors
Ambassadors
Nicola Benedetti CBE
Sir George Benjamin CBE
Julian Bliss
YolanDa Brown OBE
Simon Cowell
Sir Mark Elder CH, CBE
Tasmin Little CBE
Julian Lloyd Webber OBE
Wayne Marshall OBE
Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE
Rachel Portman OBE
Abel Selaocoe
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Jess Gillam MBE
Sasha Grynyuk
Jools Holland OBE DL
Sir Stephen Hough CBE
Steven Isserlis CBE
Miloš Karadaglić
"The London Music Fund has added value and inspiration to so many children over the last ten years. Happy Anniversary LMF, proud to be an ambassador, here’s to making more dreams come true."
YolanDa Brown OBE, Saxophonist and Broadcaster
Advisors
Maggie Crowe OBE – Director of Events & Charities, BPI; Event Director, The BRIT Awards
Joanna Dipple – SVP Public Affairs at Live Nation Entertainment
Miranda Francis – Head of Junior Programmes, Royal College of Music
Sean Gregory – Director of innovation and engagement, Barbican Centre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Lauren Silverman
Music Education Committee
Chair – Richard Morris (Founder Trustee)
John Bergin – CEO, Newham Music Trust
Annie Cartwright – Music Education Consultant
Matthew Glenn – Music Education Consultant
Alison Mears – Director of Guildhall Young Artists and Safeguarding, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Mary Mycroft – Head of Waltham Forest Music Service
Dr Ross Purves – Associate Professor for Music Education, UCL Institute of Education
Tim Spires – Senior Policy Officer, Cultural Education and Music, Greater London Authority
Baroness Fleet, Veronica Wadley CBE – Chair, Model Music Curriculum; Founder Trustee & Chair, LMF
Roger Wilson – Director of Operations, Black Lives in Music
Amplify London Advisory Group
Chrissy Kinsella – CEO, London Music Fund
Kate Kelly - Senior Programmes and Operations Manager, London Music Fund
Arfa Butt – Music Industry & Cultural Partnerships Strategy Consultant
Philip Flood – Director, Sound Connections
Christina Matteotti – Head of Music, EMEA Partnerships, Google
Oliver Morris – Director of Education and Skills, UK Music
Jason Singh — Sound Artist, nature beatboxer, composer and creative facilitator
Tim Spires – Senior Policy Officer, Cultural Education and Music, Greater London Authority
Keith Sykes — Director of Community Programmes, Lewisham Music
Benjamin Turner - Founding Director of Rap Club (home of The Spit Game), Educator and Youth Arts Leader
‘The London Music Fund makes a huge difference to the lives of so many young musicians. I am incredibly proud to be an Ambassador’.
Simon Cowell
“Thanks to the London Music Fund Emilia met similar children and wonderful teachers who showed her the freedom of music, the change that music can make in her life, the uniqueness of herself... She became more confident, she practiced more and with joy, she heard many talented musicians and saw many wonderful places. You have changed her future already and you are changing the future of the people around her as well and for that we would like to say a very huge THANK YOU!!!!”
Parents of Emilia, age 10, Violin Scholar from Enfield