Trustees

Peter Fairlie joined Music in Hospitals & Care as a member of the Scottish Committee in 2011. He became a Trustee in 2014 and was appointed Chairman in 2016.

His professional career spans over 30 years at board level in both private and public sectors. He spent 20 years in the Scotch Whisky industry leading companies and the development of leading brands worldwide.

Over the last 15 years he developed a number of business interests in various sectors including a consultancy company specialising in business strategy, development and project management.
He remains involved in the hotel and property sector and is an honorary school governor.

Maureen Hall is a Scottish qualified solicitor, specialising in employment law, and also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development.  She was employed as an in-house lawyer for the NHS in Scotland for many years, before moving into private practice. She now works part-time in the financial services sector in London, but also spends time back home with family in Edinburgh and has various voluntary and charity interests in addition to MiHC. She has always enjoyed choral singing and is currently a member of the London Symphony Chorus.

Anne is a Chartered Accountant and a partner in an accountancy practice attending to all aspects of audit, accountancy and taxation for a wide range of businesses, individuals and charities. Current and previous experience of charitable and community involvement includes being a board member of a local college, a Special Health Board, charitable trusts and organisations, involvement with the Chamber of Commerce and acting as treasurer of Dunbartonshire Scouts. She was a Justice of the Peace for 15 years and is a Deputy Lieutenant in Dunbartonshire. Anne is married with three grown up children and six grandchildren.

Helen started volunteering for MiHC in 2009 and initiated the charity’s ICU Hear© project in 2016, receiving the 658th Points of Light Award from the Prime Minister for this. Helen is a trustee of ICUsteps and was formerly MiHC treasurer, chairing the Finance & Audit Committee. Previously, Helen was a trustee of Music & The Deaf after completing 2 music degrees including a Masters in Psychology of Music. Helen plays the piano, clarinet, flute, alto saxophone and sang with The Huddersfield Choral Society for 20 years. Helen holds professional qualifications and active professional memberships as an accountant, fundraiser and company secretary.

The Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams studied at St John’s College, Cambridge, at the National Opera Studio, and with April Cantelo.  He made his debut with Welsh National Opera as Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and has since appeared in more than sixty operatic roles.  He has given performances at major venues in North and South America, Australia, China, India, and most European countries.  He frequently records for BBC Radio 3 and has made many commercial recordings, including more than ten solo discs of songs.  In 2011 he received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Aberdeen.

Fiona is from Fife, Scotland. She studied violin at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and at the Guildhall School of Music in London. After 10 years as a freelance musician she joined the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While working in the BBCSSO she studied for a BSc Hons degree from the Open University after which she moved into Orchestral Management. First with the Ulster Orchestra, then as Orchestra Manager with the BBC Philharmonic where she stayed till taking early retirement in 2012. Since then, she has worked as a freelance Orchestra Manager and Orchestra Tour Manager as well as becoming a Trustee for MiHC.

Helen Dutta is a lawyer with over a decade’s experience in the arts sector, having held roles in legal and business affairs, policy and corporate governance. Helen is currently a senior manager and company secretary to DACS, a not-for-profit artists’ rights organisation. Helen’s commitment to the arts stems from her own background as a musician, having studied flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later an MA in ethnomusicology. Helen has worked previously as a musician on numerous outreach projects, including with the English National Ballet and is also a Trustee of youth theatre charity, RicNic.

Charmian is a lawyer with extensive experience of the strategic, operational, legal and risk aspects of the management of law firms. Music has always been important to her both as a performer and member of the audience. She also has experience of various hospitals and care settings and has seen first hand the hugely beneficial impact which music can have for patients, residents and their carers.

Sarah is Creative Director of an Experiential Design Agency in London, which she founded fifteen years ago and she brings a deep knowledge of graphic communication, brand creation and marketing to her role as Trustee. Sarah graduated as a music scholar from Wells Cathedral School, where she studied the Violin and Viola and has managed to combine her design work with a full professional music career that has taken her all over the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Working initially as a session player in London, she then formed her own electric string group, which went onto work for the major record labels and artists including Adele, Madonna, Rod Stewart and Brian Ferry.

Sarah now specialises in improvised jazz and classical crossover on an electric violin. Her daughter is a chorister in Salisbury Cathedral and her son is a chorister at Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court.