Rachael Clarke
Trustee
Rachael Clarke studied music at The University of Nottingham, holding the Walton Scholarship for Performance. She worked as head of music at the Joseph Rowntree School in York, before being promoted to head of the Performing Arts Faculty and then Assistant Headteacher, responsible for Key Stage 3 and Transition. During this time she has overseen numerous successful musical projects and musical theatre productions for young people. At the 2018 UK Music Teacher Awards for Excellence, she was a finalist for the ‘Musicians Union Inspiration Award’, the citation reading ‘an outstanding music teacher who inspires countless students. Without Mrs Clarke, I wouldn’t be studying music today’.
She is passionate about ensuring all young people in York have fair access to music provision within schools and in other projects across the city and brings a wealth of experience at Senior Leadership level to the board.
Charlie Croft
Trustee
Charlie Croft has worked for City of York Council as an Assistant Director since 1996 covering a wide range of functions notably arts and culture, libraries, museums, early years, adult learning, community engagement and equalities. Previously responsible for the management of the music service when it was a Council service he is committed to ensuring that the Music Hub goes from strength to strength as a strong and dynamic partnership body in its new guise as charitable incorporated organisation. He is involved in music in York through participation in choirs and playing the clarinet and through his children’s extensive use of the many musical opportunities that York provides.
Ann M Green CBE
Chair of Trustees
Ann M Green CBE is an experienced board chair and non-executive director/trustee having worked with a number of charitable organisations for over twenty years. She believes strongly in the availability of music and performance arts to all, from education at a very early age throughout our lives. Everyone should have the opportunity to participate and enjoy all cultural offerings.
In support of this, Ann chaired the Royal Armouries Museum for ten years, York St John University for nine years and Hadrian’s Wall Heritage for nine years. She has also served as a non-executive director on the board of the DCMS. Ann is currently chair of York Theatre Royal and the York Guildhall Orchestra. Her career has seen her work on strategic planning, business plans and budgets, marketing, recruitment and fundraising.
John Hunt
Trustee
John Hunt is a practicing teacher of music and pastoral leader with wide ranging experience of leadership positions in education. He also has experience in governance including responsibility for personnel, performance management, student development, learning and achievement and community partnerships.
He is the current Vice Chair of the National Association for Pastoral Care in Education and is interested in the undoubted positive impact that music and other creative subjects can have on young people both in and outside of formal education. John has been an active musician since moving to York in 2008 and believes that the Music Hub should be a powerful vehicle to ensure accessibility to music for all young people across the city.
Glyn Jones
Trustee
Glyn Jones is a Vice Principal at York College, where he has worked for 25 years in many different roles, starting as a Biology teacher. His work involves leadership of arts education, and he has been involved with the city’s Cultural Education Partnership (now REACH) and other wider arts education partnerships – such as the Saturday Art Clubs – for several years. Before teaching, he worked as an environmental scientist, photographer and skydiver (not all at the same time). His children have been participating in York Music Hub activities for most of their lives and as well as listening to them play, he enjoys playing guitars and mandolin in varied company, including a ceilidh band.
Natasha Morris
Trustee
Natasha is Corporate Partnerships Manager at Opera North, supporting a development team responsible for generating £2.2million a year to enable the company to sustain and enhance its work using music and performance to connect with communities and inspire new generations. Prior to joining Opera North, Natasha worked in individual giving, leading regular and major donor campaigns at Jesus College Cambridge and York Minster; for two years she also worked as a secondary school English Teacher.
She is a Trustee for both York Music Hub and The Chapter House Choir, and is a passionate advocate for a diverse, quality and inclusive arts sector and of the transformational impact this has on individuals and communities.
Helen Minors
Trustee
Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University, United Kingdom. She is also a Visiting Professor of artistic research at Lulea Technical University, Sweden. She was founder and original co-chair of EDI Music Studies Network, and former chair and vice chair of MusicHE. She plays trumpet for St Olaves Academy Orchestra in York and the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra, and she a broadcaster and presenter for Radio Wey. Her publications include Routledge Companion to Women’s Musical Leadership, co-edited with Laura Hamer (Routledge, 2024); Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education, co-edited with Stefan Ostersjo and others (OpenBook Publishing, 2024); Music, Dance and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2023); Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, co-edited with Martin Blain (Palgrave, 2020); Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician, co-edited with Laura Watson (Routledge, 2019); Building Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Bridges: Where Theory Meets Research and Practice, co-edited with Pamela Burnard et al. (BIBACC, 2017); and Music, Text and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013). Recent articles and chapters have also appeared in the London Review of Education (2017/2019), Translation and Multimodality (Routledge, 2019), Opera and Translation (John Benjamins, 2020), Tibon (2022), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions (2023), and Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (2023).
Holly Craven
Trustee
Following a year teaching music in the Falkland Islands, Holly studied Music at Oxford Brookes University before moving to Malaysia for a year to teach Music and Drama. On return to the UK, she did a GTP in Secondary Music at the University of Reading, and slowly worked her way back up north! Holly is currently Director of Music at St Peter’s 8-13 in York, and has taught music from 2-18 for the last 20 years. She also works closely with York Minster supporting the music team there with the day-to-day needs of the choristers. Holly runs the Cross Keys Choir for primary aged children in York and surrounding areas, which meets each Saturday, and also works closely with local primary schools to provide music mornings called ‘Breakfast Beats’.
