LYC PEOPLE

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.