The board of Trustees of the Wiltshire Music Centre provide overall strategic direction for the organisation. A wider group of Advisory Councillors bring additional skills, expertise and contacts to support the Centre’s work.

Caroline Kay - Chair
Caroline Kay is currently (from Sept 07) Chief Executive of the Bath Preservation Trust. She has for the last 10 years worked as a freelance arts consultant following her role as a senior consultant with leading arts management consultancy AEA Ltd. Her recent clients include the Royal Albert Hall and the Heritage Lottery Fund. While at AEA she was lead consultant responsible for several successful lottery applications totalling over £50 million and acted as a technical assessor on several Arts and Heritage projects. In 1998 she led the development of AEA Training, an intensive training programme for managers of capital projects in cultural organisations.

From 1988-92 Caroline was Deputy Director of ABSA (now Arts and Business) and from 1986-88 Information Officer of the Wellcome Trust, the major medical research charity. Her first job was as Clerk in the House of Lords having joined through the fast stream Civil Service Examinations in 1982. Caroline received a first class BA Hons in Physiology and Psychology from New College, Oxford in 1982 and completed a part-time MSc in Organisational Psychology at Bristol University in 2000. She was a Board Member (1992-97) of English Touring Theatre and (1997-99) of Aldeburgh Productions, is a Fellow (Governor) of Winchester College and was (2002-6) a non-executive director of the Avon, Gloucester and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority. She is married to Bradford-on-Avon GP Dr James Heffer.

Harriet Feilding (née Earle) –
Treasurer and Company Secretary
Harriet is presently Bursar of Stonar School, an independent girls school north of Bradford on Avon. Previously she was in the fine art world, latterly with Bonhams, and before that as a Director of Sotheby's in charge of the Client Accounts department.

Having read Mathematics at Oxford, Harriet qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co in London, leaving seven years later to join the Designers Guild. She joined English National Opera as Finance Director and Company Secretary in 1991.

Harriet has also been the Board Member and Treasurer of the National Youth Dance Trust (1994-2001) and a Board member of English Touring Opera (1994-1998).

Keith Bennett
Keith Bennett studied music at Oxford, where he was organ scholar at Brasenose College, and subsequently at Trinity College of Music. He was awarded a doctorate from Oxford in 1978 for his study of Luca Marenzio, the Italian madrigalist.

From 1979-2004 he taught at Bath Spa University, where for eighteen years he was a principal lecturer and Course Director of the BA (Hons) Music degree. Whilst there he conducted the university college choir and opera on many occasions.

Keith has for many years been conductor of the Paragon Singers of Bath, one of the south-west's leading chamber choirs, specialising particularly in early music and contemporary music. He has also performed widely as an accompanist, continuo player and singer.

Catherine Cooper
Catherine Cooper trained as a teacher of Physical Education and Dance at Bishop Otter College, Chichester and Sussex University, gaining a B.Ed Hons in 1975 and NPQH in 2002. She has taught in Wiltshire for 29 years including 5 years as a part time advisory teacher for primary P.E and Dance.

Catherine has worked at St Laurence School since its opening in 1980 and was formerly a teacher at Trinity School in Bradford on Avon. She has undertaken a variety of roles including head of faculty, assistant head of sixth form, assistant headteacher with responsibility for inclusion, personnel and training and more recently head of upper school. She has a very strong belief in the power of the performing arts to enrich lives and has been involved in many collaborative projects with music, dance and drama throughout her career. Catherine is a member of the leadership team at St Laurence and has strategic role in developing the school's specialism as a Performing Arts College. The links between the school and the Wiltshire Music Centre are seen as an important and exciting part of future developments in arts education.

Previously she ran Bristol & Bath Arts Marketing Agency which was funded by the Touring Department of the Arts Council. During that period she worked with many of the leading touring companies in the country.

She is also a Visiting Lecturer at Bath Spa University. Her career in the arts began at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in its early years.

She was educated at Aberdeen University and City University, London where she did a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration.

Rona is a member of the Board of ArtsMatrix, a Director of South West Arts Marketing, a Trustee of Firebird Theatre Company and a member of the Steering Group for the development of dance in Bath. She was previously a Director of the Arts Marketing Association and Chair of the Bristol Area Dance Agency.

Lindsay qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in London in 1984 having previously graduated from the University of Reading (MPhil; Land Management) and the University of St Andrews(BSc (Hons); Botany). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and was a Trustee of Twerton Village Hall, a Millennium Commission project, from 1998-2001 acting as project director.

Robert Keylock
Robert originally hails from East Anglia, but came to Wiltshire in 2004 to train as a solicitor with Wilsons Solicitors LLP in Salisbury. He was admitted as a solicitor in 2006 and now specialises in trusts, taxation and probate. Robert was introduced to the Wiltshire Music Centre through a scheme run by Arts & Business which aims to encourage young professionals to become involved with arts boards.

Alongside individuals from Smith & Williamson, Strutt & Parker and Trethowans, he helped to establish the Salisbury Young Professionals group, which was set up in 2007 to give young professionals in and around Salisbury an opportunity to network in an informal and relaxed manner. He is also secretary of the Land Trusts Association, which exists to encourage the formation, where appropriate, of an alternative form of land ownership in the form of charitable land trusts.

Outside work, Robert enjoys pursuing his passion for music. Having previously played violin in the Norfolk County Youth Orchestra, Warwick University Orchestra and Magdalen College Oxford Orchestra, he now plays in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, as well as a variety of other local ensembles.

Involvement in local affairs led her to stand for election to the County Council where she was the member for Bradford on Avon for twelve years 1987 ? 2001. For some of that time she chaired the Social Services Committee. She is still a Town Councillor, was Mayor of Bradford on Avon 1999 - 2001 and was elected for a further term, 2003-2005.

She has been a school governor at a Special School and a non-executive director on Wiltshire Health Authority. She is still a non-executive director of the combined Strategic Health Authorities of Avon, Gloucester and Wiltshire.

Vicky was involved with the development group when the Wiltshire Music Centre was first being considered and joined the Trustees in 2001.

Peter Measday
Peter Measday BA, ACIB, spent most of his working life in the banking profession, firstly with the Standard Bank of South Africa (now the Standard Chartered Group) but mainly with the National Westminster Bank (now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group). For the most part he worked in London in areas of retail banking and banking skills training.

In 1982/1985 he was in charge of Nat West Bank's Management Development Programmes. He retired from the position of Assistant Managing Director, Nat West Insurance Services in Bristol in 1993.

His commitments increasingly involve Rotary Community Service projects, but he aims to leave sufficient time for traveling with his wife and keeping close to their children and grandchildren.

He has worked for over 30 years in state secondary education, 16 of these as a Head Teacher. He stepped down from the post of Principal of Cotham School, a Specialist Performing Arts College and Post 16 Centre for North Bristol in 2004.

He is the founder and a Director of 'Bristol Education Initiative' (a Community Interest Company) which has a focus on the research and design of secondary school provision to support less resilient young people achieve their academic potential. Bristol Education Initiative (CIC) is currently researching the design of 'Urban Village Schools', and the design of a 'Learning and Research Community' to support 16 year olds who wish to re-engage with education.

He published the report 'Holding Children in Mind over Time' (March 2006) which is concerned with the needs of able but less resilient young people who are leaving school without any GCSE qualifications.

James is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Policy at the Warren House Group in Dartington - the Centre comprises 50 fellows from 5 countries representing nine disciplines. He is also a Fellow of the RSA.

He chairs the Board of Trustees of Multi A, (a Bristol based charity committed to Arts and Creative Education in the most disadvantaged primary schools in the city). He is also chairs the Management Committee of the Avon Sexual Abuse Centre (a Bristol based charity providing long term psychotherapy and counselling to victims of sexual abuse, funded by Bristol City Council Social Services and Primary Health Care Trusts). He is a Trustee of both the Wiltshire Music Centre and the Richard Feilden Foundation (Architecture, Education, Africa). He is a Governor of Ilminster Avenue Primary School, in Knowle, Bristol.