Helping Tomorrow's Musicians Today
Joint Chair
Simon Foster
Clancy Steer
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Director
Michael Maxwell Steer
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Deputy Director
Arturo Serna
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Treasurer
Stephen Welford
Trustees
S Foster
MJ Gibbons
R Reid
J Salter
J Scott-Clarke
D Steer
C Steer
S Welford
R Heason
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The Cherubim Music Trust (#1088403) was founded by Clancy Steer in response to personal experience and the needs of young musicians:
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“Our daughter Serafina chose to take up the harp aged seven. After graduating from Chethams School of Music, where she had access to a first-rate concert harp, we were faced with buying her a £10,000 instrument for music college – but as we had only recently moved house a further loan was out of the question. We were fortunate to a solution which laid the ground Serafina’s later successes as a harpist and songwriter.”
To help others in similar situations Clancy created Cherubim Music Trust in 2001 with the aid of the Gosling Foundation. In the decades since, the Trust has grown steadily by purchase, donation and loan and now holds 60+ instruments worth over £700k that are loaned to young talented musicians in need of a better instrument.
Patrons
Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL
Michael Collins FRCM HonRAM
Sir Mark Elder
Prof Guy Johnston
Tasmin Little CBE
Trevor Pinnock CBE
Prof Gabriella Dall’Olio
Ombudsman
Deborah Steer
(see below left)
Personnel
Tasmin Little CBE with Cherubim founder Clancy Steer and awardees
Director
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A former BBC music producer and Head of 20thC Studies at the Junior RCM, he runs a series of Aperitif Concerts in London and teaches in Wiltshire while maintaining a career as a composer.
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Deputy Director
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A graduate of El Sistema, Venezuela, he studied in Switzerland & France and holds Conducting Masters from Surrey U. Arturo conducts several west country orchestras, and runs an El Sistema with his wife in Sherborne, Dorset.
Chair
Simon Foster
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Barrister at law with a deep attachment to music.
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Contact
Cherubim Music Trust
125 Duck Street
Tisbury SP3 6LJ
info@cherubimtrust.org
Behind the scenes
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ThThe reason the Trust runs smoothly in public is because we have first-class professionals supporting it behind the scenes.
Deborah Steer
A trustee since Cherubim’s initiation in 2001, Deborah is the Trust’s Ombudsman, and before retirement was a senior nurse in the NHS. Any stakeholder wishing to raise a concern can do so confidentially and Deborah will investigate it. deborah.steer@tiscali.co.uk
Heather Conder
Heather Conder is Cherubim’s Social Media Manager and also a London based Actor, Singer and Musician. She studied Music at The University of Cambridge and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She now performs professionally and has performed in West End, Off-West End and regional productions.
Sarah Brooks
Secretary