The members of the Concert Promoters' Group (CPG) may or may not be members of Making Music.
Some members have specific roles in the group.
We meet at least three times a year.
Current CPG members include:
Chairman: Edmond Fivet, Bury St Edmonds Concert Club
Secretary: Stephen Leeder, Rhyl Music Club
Treasurer: Len Jenkinson, Music at Duffield/Derby Music Club
CPG brochure co-ordinator: George Wolfe, Matlock Music Society
Rosemary Allen: Bournemouth Chamber Music Society
Jean Richards: Witney Music Society
Tomasa Sherwood: Weymouth Music Club
Amanda Smith: Green Room, Royal Tunbridge Wells
Listeners
The Concert Promoters' Group has a panel of Listeners who attend chamber music concerts, and report on their suitability for inclusion in the Concert Promoters' Brochure.
Would you enjoy visiting music clubs and hearing some outstanding musicians, many of them prize-winners? Contact George Wolfe, the Network Co-ordinator.
CVs of Group members
Edmond Fivet:
Edmond retired as principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2007 and is now based in Suffolk. Edmond is chair of the Bury St Edmunds Concert Club and is music director of the Aldeburgh Music Club Choir, the Phoenix Singers and is conductor of the Prometheus Orchestra.
Edmond is active as a consultant, adjudicator and in 2012 has been invited as a guest conductor with the Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra.
For his work in Wales he was awarded a CBE in 2008.
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Stephen Leeder:
Stephen taught Geography in Essex and North Wales until his retirement. Since then he has become Concert Organiser for the Rhyl Music Club's 13 concerts annually and attempts to write Programme notes which fool his membership into believing he has a modicum of musical training. His wife Ceri is completing a Fine Art degree and this brings an interesting perspective to the question of new styles of music.
He continues to try to reverse time in his outside interests of mountain biking (Snowdonia etc) and skiing and panders to his lower nature by watching motor and motorbike racing.
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Len Jenkinson
Len is the Treasurer and a Selection Committee member of Music at Duffield. He is a long-standing member of Derby Music Club, where he has twice been President and is currently Vice President. Until February 2008 Len was a member of the Derby Arts Festival Council and Chairman of its Centenary Working Party.
Reading Mathematics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Len was a Cantor in the Chapel Choir, a member of the CU Musical Society and CU Music Club. After graduating he worked for over 35 years in the IT industry, specialising in Database Management and founded the UK subsidiary of Software AG.
Len is a keen violinist and frequently plays chamber music in the Derby and Nottingham area.
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George Wolfe George Wolfe has been keen on music since his school-days though sadly he lacks any musical skills. His particular interest is chamber music as a keen supporter of Music in the Round in Sheffield. He became involved in musical organisation when the Matlock Music Society committee decided that they had to close it down. With some friends he volunteered to take on the running the Society which has since gone from strength to strength. He is the Secretary of the Society and manages their website. He has also managed the website for Making Music East Midlands.
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Rosemary Allen:
Since Rosemary retired, she has become actively involved with Making Music and has been on the Regional Committee, first of the Southern area, then the South Western area. She is now Chairman of the South West Regional Committee and edits the newsletter for the South West.She has been a member of the Concert Promoter’s Group (formerly committee) since 2004.
Rosemary is Treasurer of the Bournemouth Chamber Music Society and also runs their Young Musicians’ Development Scheme. She is a member of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. She regularly attends the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts and enjoys going to the opera and the theatre.
Rosemary taught English and Communications at Bournemouth and Poole College after gaining a degree as a ‘mature’ student. She has also worked in an insurance office and an accounts department. She has three grown-up children and five grandchildren. Rosemary has written a collection of short stories, one of which has been broadcast on Radio 4, and at present she is working on a novel. Her intention is to try to get all these published, when she gets round to sending them away!
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Jean Richards
Jean has a degree in electronic engineering and an MA in music that included a dissertation on the Music Appreciation movement. She worked in the aerospace industry for many years and is now finance manager and webmaster for a local electronics company.
Jean is actively involved in Witney Music Society for which she writes the monthly concert programmes.
She plays the piano at the local primary school and is the reserve organist (and enthusiastic bell ringer) at the village church. She also plays percussion in Freeland Orchestra and West Oxfordshire Winds.
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Tomasa Sherwood
Tomasa, originally from Poole, studied Statistics at University College London. After a brief spell working in Econometrics ,she became a teacher of Maths in secondary schools.
A work move for her husband Phil brought them down to Weymouth, Dorset in 1984, where, after retiring from teaching Maths in a local comprehensive school, she became involved with the Weymouth Music Club, and is now programme and website coordinator.
Unable to completely give up teaching, Tomasa helps with Maths at a local primary school on a very part-time basis. Her husband keeps very busy with family history, and they are the proud owners of 3 computers, and 2 cats.
She enjoys playing the piano.
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Amanda Smith
