Board of directors

John Murphy (chair) – experienced arts manager
Jim Sutherland – composer and founder of La Banda Europa
Ian Martin - retired academic, currently an Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University, with a particular interest in the potential of music and song in relation to citizenship education
Mae Shaw - university teacher and researcher with a particular interest in the educational - aspects of music, performance and the arts
Ronnie Gurr – 30 years of music industry experience in both private and public sectors
Dr Jan Fairley – journalist and ethno-musicologist

Observer - William Alexander Finlayson – writer to the Signet

'A key challenge for the European Union is to develop a common sense of a common citizenship which is enriched by cultural difference. Music - making it, performing it, listening to it - is potentially a unique way of constructing such an inclusive yet diverse civic identity. There is much talk about education for citizenship in the new Europe. Learning citizenship by making music could have a distinctive contribution to make to this process. In this sense, citizenship is the outcome of creative activity rather than the starting point for educational practice.'

Ian Martin, board member,
Reader in Adult and Community Education, University of Edinburgh