Sorrel Brookes
Sorrel has 35 experience working in social housing and regeneration in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh with particular expertise in working with residents to achieve positive change. She is the Lay Vice-Chair on Islington’s NHS Clinical Commissioning Group with responsibility for patient and public participation. An amateur musician singing in Hackney Singers and playing clarinet and recorder, Sorrel brings experience of governance, equalities and diversity, organisational development and change and strategic planning to the Board of ELMG.
Elisha owen
Elisha is a fundraising, partnerships, and events specialist with a career spanning several of London’s cultural institutions including Rambert, the Barbican, and Young Vic; supported by an MA in Arts Policy and Cultural Management from Birkbeck University. She has delivered projects across the UK and in New York, and won the 2019 European Sponsorship Award for best Arts and Culture partnership. Elisha is currently working for the London Museum on one of the largest cultural regeneration projects in Europe - building a new museum for London in Smithfield.
Born in Newham, Elisha is a passionate advocate for London’s creative community and is proud to support ELMG, as well as sitting on the Culture Mile BID’s Cultural Destination Steering Committee. Outside of her work, Elisha is an amateur pianist and enjoys going to gigs and the theatre, creative writing, and hiking, most recently completing a successful trek to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
sally gatward
Sally is a tax adviser working in the not-for-profit sector. She is ACA and CTA qualified and has a PhD in mathematics. She recently took a year out to travel round the world, volunteering for charities in South America, Asia and Africa as a financial adviser. This has given her an insight into the issues that small charities face and the different legal frameworks facing them. She is also a keen amateur bassoon player.
George haggett
Dr George K. Haggett is an East London-based community worker and musicologist specialising in contemporary music and queer theory. He works part-time as a lecturer at Somerville College, Oxford, and part-time as Community Chaplain at St Matthew's Church in Bethnal Green. At St Matthew's, he runs a musical toddler group, "Choir Church" after-school club, and provides pastoral care in the community, including in a residential home. He is also a trustee for Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera. In his spare time, George is a keen amateur tuba player with CoMA London ensemble.
howard williams
One of Britain’s most experienced conductors, Howard has covered a formidable range of work both in the opera house and concert hall. In the UK, he has conducted most of the leading orchestras, as well as throughout Europe in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Hungary, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and the Netherlands. He has conducted at the BBC Proms and at the Edinburgh, Leeds, Bath and Brighton Festivals, as at festivals in Budapest, Hong Kong. In the theatre he has conducted nearly one hundred opera and ballet productions overall. Following his appointment in 1989 as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic, Hungary, Howard devoted much time to working with the leading orchestras in that country. In 2000 Howard was appointed Head of Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is now a professor of Conducting at the Royal College of Music in London.
Stuart
Stuart is a primary school specialist music teacher, with many years’ experience of teaching in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney. Starting out as a class teacher in the late 90s, he has always looked for opportunities to develop arts education.
Over the last 10 years he has been setting up children’s choirs and mini-bands and has developed partnerships with various organisations: music hubs, the London Symphony Orchestra, local schools – all in order to develop children’s love of music.
He is also an amateur musician, playing trombone with the East London Community Band.