We are delighted to announce the cohort for the fifth year of our Trainee Trustee Scheme. This scheme is a crucial stepping stone for professionals to gain an introduction to charity board governance, build valuable skills, and learn from sector leaders.
Scarlet O'Shea
Scarlet currently works in sustainable investing at an asset management firm in London. Outside of this, she is passionate about music education, community music-making and broadening access to musical opportunities for all ages. She has played the violin and piano since she was six and attended the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she developed a love of chamber music playing with an award-winning quartet. She is a keen singer, having spent four years singing and touring internationally with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, and currently sings with the Epiphoni Consort in London, performing in venues across London and recently in the City of Derry International Choir Festival. She lives in East London and is delighted to be taking part in the Spitalfields Trainee Trustee Scheme, learning more about charity governance and Spitalfields Music’s work in the local community.
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos is a Portuguese composer, sound artist and researcher, creating work across solo, chamber, orchestral, electronic, film, stage, and installation contexts. His music is commissioned internationally, with partners including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Braga Media Arts, Arte no Tempo, ORA Singers, gnration, RTP/Antena 2, and the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology. His practice explores perception, psychoacoustics, technology, and timbre, merging advanced computer-assisted methods with vintage textures and urban overstimulation. Ongoing projects include An Aria for the Mallard and Music for a Greek Museum, both commissioned works that will enter their commissioning institutions’ permanent collections. He also shares interests in artistic direction, artistic management, entrepreneurship, and governance.
Anna Harris
Anna Harris is a Bristol-based clarinettist who has recently graduated from the University of Bristol with first-class honours in music and is the winner of the J H Britton prize for musicology for her research into female composers. While at university, Anna engaged in multiple outreach projects bringing music to school children, as she herself was introduced to the clarinet by a local music charity. Anna has a strong interest in music education and ensuring all children can access these opportunities. She is excited to be a Trainee Trustee with Spitalfields Music and looks forward to finding out about the role of trustees.
Alice Sharp
Alice’s passion for community music started from being heavily involved with her local music service as a child. This inspired her to major in music at the University of Birmingham and be an active music society member, and this passion would later influence her MA dissertation that explored barriers to, and those enabling, music making in the community.
Alice’s other love is fundraising, a career she’s thoroughly enjoying. She started out with roles in the arts at New English Ballet Theatre and the Royal College of Music, and currently works as an events coordinator for the charity Shelter.
She’s delighted to be a part of Spitalfields Music’s Trainee Trustee Scheme to learn about charity governance and all she can from the board and other trainees.
