Making Music, the leading charity for the UK's leisure-time music sector has announced the appointment of a trio of new trustee board members.

They join a board that will be responsible for Making Music's overall strategy and direction, acting as ambassadors for its members and the leisure-time music sector.

It has been stated that it will include meeting with key personnel from local and national government, music, charity and education sectors.

Elections

Nine trustees are elected by and from its membership. Board elections take place prior to the Annual General Meeting and this year the three vacancies were contested by nine nominees.

Margaret Harrison is the Chair of the Neston Singers, a community choir in Cheshire. She works at the Association of Independent Museums.

Jayne Barr is a singer with the Hampstead Chamber Choir in London and plays alto sax and flute in a rock'n'roll cover band.

Will Prideaux leads the Peterborough Sings! charity and its four choirs. He specialises in the equal voices genre.

Making Music is also able to co-opt trustees, to complement the elected Board members. This year, Philip O'Rawe has been co-opted to ensure members in Northern Ireland are represented on the Board. He is a long-standing Trustee and Treasurer of Cappella Caeciliana, a chamber choir based in Belfast.

Fortunate

Speaking about the new appointment, Rhiannon Harrison, Chairperson of Making Music, said: "We are so fortunate as a Board to have four excellent new additions joining us this year.

Jayne, Philip, Margaret and Will are bringing a fantastic range of skills and knowledge to the Board and we thank them in advance for their service.'

Very lucky

In addition, Barbara Eifler, Chief Executive of Making Music, added: "We are very lucky in that our members come from all kinds of professional backgrounds, and so our Board is able to benefit from their day job experience as well as their passion for music and understanding of leisure-time music groups."