Meet Our Team

Mike Hughes

Mike Hughes (Project Manager)

Mike is a recently retired IT professional who spent many years as a civil servant and for the last 9 years, working in higher education at various universities as an IT Project Manager. Latterly, Mike was employed as the Head of Customer Operations in a small software house which provided educational related software for universities and colleges.

Mike’s interests include attending live music events, playing the guitar, riding his motorbike and lots of travel. He has 3 adult children and ever increasing number of grandchildren.

 
Laura Jones

Laura Jones (Administrator)

Laura Jones has worked as a freelance musician in the York area since 2004. She tutors privately and in schools, and accompanies for various choirs – including Sounds Fun and Haxby Singers – and events, from church services to accredited music exams to pupils’ concerts… and everything in between!

Laura’s playing career has taken her to venues such as Castle Howard and Betty’s Tea Rooms and on a national theatre tour with the James Chadwick Swing Sextet, while her Dickens-themed CD with piano duo Two for Tea has sold internationally. She has worked for Music in Hospitals and Silver Song Box, providing music sessions for those with dementia and mental ill-health.

Having formerly been a trustee for Emerging Voices, she has now taken on an administrative position, previous admin roles including work for Song Box and University of York Music Press.

She has a doctorate in musicology from York University and has taught on the undergraduate programme and for the WEA.
Sophia Broadhead

Sophia Broadhead (Fundraiser)

Sophia is a final-year undergraduate BA Music student at the University of York. She is passionate about the positive impact of music and is an active member of the University’s Music Education Group, where she currently serves as the secretary and delivers music workshops in primary schools, care homes, and nurseries.

Sophia also enjoys participating in group music-making, including playing the clarinet in the University of York Symphony Orchestra and conducting the University of York’s concert band. Recently, Sophia has volunteered for Orchestras for All contributing to their Modulo programme across the country.