Introducing our new Chief Executive

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Today we have announced that Simon Wales is to become the music charity’s new chief executive from August, taking over from current chief executive Louise Mitchell, who is due to step down this summer after 12 years in post.

Simon is an experienced arts and cultural leader who has led music and heritage organisations and instigated cultural and commercial change across his career. In his current role as chief executive of Stowe House Preservation Trust, Simon has overseen the growth in audiences and income, created a public arts programme based at Stowe School, and planned the next phase of restoration projects as part of a £25 million overall programme. A Clore Fellow, he has also worked with the London Symphony Orchestra as Director of the LSO St Luke’s music education centre and music charity B:Music (Town Hall & Symphony Hall) in Birmingham.

Simon has also been a trustee of various charities and is currently chair of Motionhouse, a dance circus company. A former cellist, Simon has also sung with the London Symphony Chorus, performing at the Barbican, Royal Albert Hall and on tour with the LSO, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Antonio Pappano amongst others.

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