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MANAGEMENT Team

LYC is managed by a small and thoroughly dedicated team of professional administrators, managers and executives. Led by Executive Director Nina Camilleri, the Management Team underpins LYC’s entire function, a list of tasks and duties too extensive to catalogue.

NINA CAMILLERI

Executive Director

Formerly Director of Development and Planning for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Director of Development and PR for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Senior Development Manager for Scottish Opera and Opera North, Nina brings a wealth of experience to the London Youth Choir in the fields of strategic planning and development.

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In her positions with both the National Youth Choirs and National Youth Orchestra Nina has been responsible for the creation and implementation of new philanthropic strategies which have played a critical role in their development and growth. Alongside these roles, Nina has also worked as a consultant to Help Musicians UK, Longborough Festival Opera and Gabrieli Consort & Players, providing business development support and advice on fundraising and governance. In 2018, Nina became a Trustee of the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust.

RACHEL STAUNTON

Artistic Director

Rachel is a conductor, music educator and co-founder of the London Youth Choirs. Having studied music at Royal Holloway, University of London, Rachel continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with numerous awards and an LRAM postgraduate diploma in choral conducting teaching.

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She held the post of vocal director for In Harmony Opera North (Classic FM’s Music Education Project of the Year 2014) and spent several years establishing the Opera North Children’s Chorus. Rachel has also worked as a conductor with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain for over a decade. Something of a choral entrepreneur, Rachel has founded a number of choirs in and around London, including LYC in 2012 with Suzi Digby OBE. In 2014 Rachel was made Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, in recognition of her contribution to choral music and work with young people. Rachel is passionate about using choral music to inspire young people from all backgrounds and dedicates her career to this mission.

PENNY LEWIS

Development Director

Penny joined the team in the summer of 2017 and works alongside Nina, raising funds and developing beneficial partnerships for LYC. Despite studying chemistry, the majority of Penny’s working life has been spent in business and the arts, predominantly raising money for music charities.

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Her varied career includes being the first fundraiser at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 14 years as Director of Fundraising & Sponsorship at Scottish Opera and freelance fundraising and consultancy posts with numerous small arts charities.
Music, especially singing, has always played an important part in her life. Singing Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the age of 12 in a choir of 200 at the Mary Wakefield Festival in Kendal was an early highlight and later she was a member of the Edinburgh University Singers, the University’s chamber choir.
Penny lives on the west coast of Scotland and works 2 days a week for LYC.

JAMES PRESCOTT-MARTIN

Finance Manager

James has worked for over 35 years in both the Arts (English National Opera, Contemporary Dance Trust, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre and the National Youth Orchestra) and the Voluntary sector (Age Concern and Surrey Community Action) in both Finance and General Management positions and now part time at LYC as Finance Manager.

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He now spends the majority of his spare time playing tennis. He also enjoys swimming, Pilates, reading, cinema, theatre and of course music. He is a member of Epsom Choral Society as a first bass.

BETHAN THOMAS

Operations Manager

Bethan is passionate about London Youth Choir and its mission to unlock young people’s potential through the power of choral music. Following her graduation from York with a BA(Hons) in Music she continued her studies at York with a Masters in Vocal Performance.

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Whilst studying, Bethan was involved in a wide range of choral singing both in the city and with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and Rodolfus Choir as well as running the University Music Society and working as the Chamber Choir librarian. Somehow she found time for a degree or two as well! Following her studies, she entered the world of music administration; running a national box office before training as a secondary music teacher. After three rewarding years of teaching and running her own choirs and a capella groups she decided to return to the world of arts administration and is now delighted to be working full time, simultaneously indulging her love of choral music and colour-coded spreadsheets with LYC as their Operations Manager.

ALICE BEVERLEY

Membership & Projects Administrator

Alice is really excited to have joined the LYC team as Memberships and Projects Administrator. Previously at the V&A, Alice has several years’ experience working to programme and produce events of all kinds, including the Exhibition Road Day of Design at the London Design Festival, the V&A’s 2018 Christmas festival, and the 5-month programme of concerts and events which ran alongside the Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition.

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A keen singer, Alice was the singing teacher at Princess Frederica primary school for three years, and enjoys singing with choirs around London as well as putting on the occasional recital. She studied English literature at university, graduating with a first from Bristol and going on to complete a masters at UCL, and is fascinated by interdisciplinary study, leading to her dissertation on poetry and music in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Outside of work, Alice enjoys reading feminist literature, and spends most of her time coercing people into reading more Sylvia Townsend Warner and Ursula le Guin.

CAT BROOKS

Music Librarian and Administration Assistant

Cat is an LYC alumnus who has been an admin assistant since September 2018. A theology graduate, Cat spent far more of her time at Durham University in the music department, directing operas, singing in whichever chapel choir would allow her and generally making a nuisance of herself. Since graduating in 2018, Cat has been working for several choirs; NYCGB, LYC and St-Martin-in-the-Fields.

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As a music librarian, she is generally to be found crouched in cupboards hunting for obscure bits of Palestrina. Outside of choral music, Cat enjoys playing darts and dancing ceilidhs, though never at the same time.
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Is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Charity Registration Number 1151714

© London Youth Choir 2019 All rights reserved