ABOUT US

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BIOGRAPHIES OF THE DIRECTORS

Keith Daley was a pupil of Pamela Spofforth and attended the second ever Pro Corda course in 1970. As with most Pro Corda students this experience ensured that Chamber Music became an important part of his life. He has continued to play viola as soloist and in various chamber groups. His three children all play stringed instruments and have attended Pro Corda courses regularly.
A Cambridge graduate, Keith Daley has wide business experience. He started his career in the City and is now a professional investor specialising the trading of derivatives. He has experience of running a number of small businesses and is a director of Elektron plc the AIM quoted components manufacturer.

He is Chairman and a Director of Pro Corda Ventures Limited.

John Ette has been involved in cultural heritage management for over 20 years and has worked for a number of organisations including Cambridge University and the British Museum. He is currently Team Leader at English Heritage responsible for managing nationally important listed buildings, ancient monuments, parks and gardens and conservation areas in Suffolk and Bedfordshire. He is a Historic Properties and Ancient Monuments Inspector by profession advising on the preservation, public enjoyment and understanding of English Heritage properties as well as all privately owned nationally important ancient monuments in the two counties. His mother was an artist and his father a writer and he and his family have a special interest in the performing arts.


Guy Hopkins has been Director of Music at Westminster School since 1996. He has conducted many orchestral, opera and choral performances there and also in St John's, Smith Square and Westminster Abbey. He has played an important role in the creation of a major new music department facility, the Manoukian Music Centre which was opened by Sir Roger Norrington in February 2005.

He also works as a freelance conductor and has been Associate Conductor of Camden Chamber Orchestra for 8 years. He has worked with solo instrumentalists such as Douglas Cummings and Joanna McGregor, and singers Rosalind Plowright, Donald Maxwell, Paul Whelan and Jennifer Smith.



John Papadakis is a partner in the international law firm Jones Day where he specialises in employee benefits. He qualified as a solicitor in 1987 after completing a degree in French and then coverting to law. 

His wife and three daughters are all passionate about music and play a variety of instruments, including the piano, violin, viola, guitar and cello. His eldest daughter attended Pro Corda for several years and his middle daughter currently attends and loves Pro Corda. John says that sadly his musical talents are restricted to musical appreciation but he is highly skilled in transporting children to music lessons, courses and concerts. In between he indulges his passion for football and tennis and loses himself in the garden whenever he can.

 

Sarah Falk has been a partner at Freshfields, a leading city law firm, since 1994. She is a Cambridge law graduate and now specialises in corporate tax.  In her youth a keen musician (she is a flautist) Sarah now concentrates more on the time consuming musical activities of her two children. Both of them attend Pro Corda: the elder has been through each of the courses from Prep to Intermediate, and the younger now attends the Primary Course. In any spare time she can find, Sarah enjoys horse riding, reading and gardening.


Liz Winter is Director of Development and Communications and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

She has a life-long interest in music and is a supporter of several orchestras and ensembles. She enjoys organising concerts in Cambridge as well as attending as many as possible.

Her background is in financial journalism and in more recent years, in fundraising and education. Apart from music her interests extend to photography and writing. She is married and has two daughters, both at university.



Jane Fenoulhet is Professor of Dutch Studies at University College London and until recently also Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She lectures and writes on Dutch culture and literature, language learning and on the humanities. Her experience as a senior manager in Higher Education is now at the disposal of Pro Corda.

Jane has been an active musician since childhood. She is keen singer and pianist and has sung with many choirs, most recently as member of the St Paul's Chorus. She is involved with Pro Corda's activities for pianists, such as the Adult Piano Weekend. She loves opera and chamber music and tending her Suffolk garden.


Graham Bowler Graham Bowler is an information technology consultant with many years of senior management experience in blue chip multinationals. He holds a B.Sc. from Bristol University and is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society.
 
He is a keen amateur pianist and particularly enjoys playing chamber music. He devotes a lot of his time to supporting musical organisations, and in addition to Pro Corda he is a trustee of the Amersham Festival Society, a co-organiser of the Wycombe Piano Festival, and Music Secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club.




After reading music at the University of York, Nigel Yandell was awarded a university scholarship to Oxford where his research focused on eighteenth-century instrumental music. He went on to work in investment banking/asset management, holding senior positions with Enskilda Securities, BZW, Hill Samuel Asset Management and BNP Paribas as Chief Investment Officer in London.

An experienced pianist, musicologist and teacher, Nigel has contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, among other publications. Elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2001, he has been both Bursar and Senior Researcher in Music. Formerly a director of the London Sinfonietta and Palace Opera, Nigel is Senior Treasurer of the University Opera Society and a director of the Cambridge Union Society.