• “The reasons for Britten Sinfonia’s incremental rise in the past 20 years are various, but among them are a commitment to interesting programmes and the assiduous building of relationships”

  Financial Times

• “The playing was marked by the kind of luminous and infectious beauty that only comes from a true marriage of mastery and love”

  The Guardian

• “The UK’s most consistently dynamic chamber ensemble”

  The New Statesman

• “I haven’t heard a chamber orchestra performing with such extrovert character and unflagging energy for years.”

  The Times

• “But as always with this orchestra there was more to savour than just stellar perfomance. The programme was ingeniously shaped.”

  The Daily Telegraph, Ivan Hewett

Meet the Trustees

The Board

Stephen Bourne, Chairman
Stephen trained as a chartered accountant and has held managerial roles in various industries including publishing and printing. Having joined Cambridge University Press in 1997 he became Chairman of its printing business in 2000, and Chief Executive in March 2002. Stephen joined the board in 2003.

Charles Rawlinson MBE, Deputy Chairman
Charles trained as a Chartered Accountant after gaining a MA from Jesus College, Cambridge. He became Joint Chairman of Morgan Grenfell & Co. merchant bankers and has been Chairman of several other companies. Charles is a founding Trustee of Britten Sinfonia.

Dame Mary Archer, DBE
Mary taught chemistry at the University of Cambridge for 10 years before developing a wider portfolio of interests. She has been chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the past ten years, and was appointed DBE in summer 2012 for services to the NHS. She is also patron of the Sinfonia of Cambridge, and President of the Guild of Church Musicians, the National Energy Foundation and the UK Solar Energy Society.

Jonathan Barclay
Jonathan is former Senior Partner of Mills & Reeve, the largest law firm based in the East of England, and has a long involvement in the arts in the region. He is now a consultant with Mills & Reeve, and non executive director of several local companies. Having joined Britten Sinfonia’s Board in 1998, he became its Chairman in 2001.

Dr Jerome Booth
Jerome is an economist and a co-founder of the emerging markets fund manager Ashmore Group plc. He is also a director of the Lloyds broker CBC UK Ltd, Chairman of the Fitzwilliam Museum Development Trust and a member of the governing board of Anglia Ruskin University.

Prof. Germaine Greer
Writer, academic and broadcaster, Germaine is best known for books such as The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman. She is currently Special Supervisor in English at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Margaret Mair
Margaret read Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, qualified as a barrister and spent most of her career in the Government Legal Service. After moving to Cambridge in 2001 she worked for the executive education team at the Judge Business School. She is closely involved in the musical life of Jesus College and is chairman of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

John Stephens, OBE
John’s wide experience in music education includes appointments as HM Inspector for Schools, Staff Inspector for Music for Inner London and Head of Music Education at Trinity College of Music. Currently he advises orchestras and opera companies seeking to extend their educational activities.

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