Peter King, Chair

Peter King is a lawyer and a civil servant. He is the Legal Director at HM Treasury, responsible for a team advising ministers and officials on all relevant legal matters, including new legislation and the management of public money.  Until 2017, he was a lawyer in private practice advising multinational companies on corporate matters. He is a trustee of several charities, a frequent attender at concerts and opera, and plays the clarinet and saxophone in small groups.

Sally Groves MBE

Sally Groves was, until June 2014, Creative Director London with Schott Music. She has always played an active role in British musical life, serving as a Board member with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Royal Northern College of Music, of which she is an Honorary Member, and the Music Publishers Association, which awarded her their Gold Medal in 2014. Sally now chairs the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust, Opera Ventures and the Music Libraries Trust, is a Governor of the Royal Society of Musicians, serves on the RVW Trust and the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation and is a trustee of the Nash Ensemble, Listenpony!, and UPROAR. Sally was given the Lesley Boosey Award, honouring champions of new music, in April 2013. In July 2015 she was awarded an MBE for services to music. In 2016 Sally was given the ABO and IAMA Awards.

Emma-Jane Azkoul

Emma-Jane is Deputy Finance Director at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Before moving into the cultural sector, she worked in the finance team at the John Lewis Partnership and went on to hold senior leadership roles at a law firm and a venture capital fund. She began life as an oboist, training briefly at the Royal College of Music, and now enjoys music from the other side of the concert stage. She studied Music at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and also serves as a trustee of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis is a copyright and music publishing professional from Merthyr Tydfil. He is currently the classical relationship manager at the UK’s leading royalty collection society, PRS for Music. In his role, he supports composers and publishers to grow their royalty income and promotes classical music to new audiences. Previously, Daniel led the contemporary editorial team at the publishing house Edition Peters, where he delivered commissions by composers including James Dillon and Rebecca Saunders. He began his career in music as flautist and composer, and studied music at the University of Oxford.

Andrew Kurowski

Andrew Kurowski joined the staff of the BBC in 1979 and became a producer with Radio 3 in 1982. Having worked across the full range of programmes, from concert relays to crafted documentaries, he became the Editor of New Music in 1991 and took responsibility for all aspects of the Network’s contemporary music output, including Jazz and World Music. A key role was the commissioning of new work for all of Radio 3’s performance areas, along with sitting on panels with partner organisations, such as RPS, BASCA, PRSF and Sound and Music, to help further the exposure of new music to as diverse an audience as possible. He left the BBC in 2013 and continues to work with contemporary music organisations to encourage and promote new work.