Our organisation is new and as such has no track record except for the sum of its parts:

MICHAEL OMER - Co-founder of Create Music Now; Composer of Music for Television, Film and Concert Hall is an award-winning experienced composer, teacher and performer who has collaborated with groups from deprived schools and communities to compose works commissioned and broadcast by the BBC. He has collaborated with the homeless charity SHELTER and the London Mozart Players to create a work performed at the orchestra’s base in Croydon. Michael has since retired from the board.

SIAN PHILIPPS -Co-founder of Create Music Now is a violinist who on leaving the Yehudi Menuhin School went on to perform as soloist at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, Musikverein Vienna, and has recorded several CDs to critical acclaim. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, London Mozart Players and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Jose Cura and Ilan Volkov. In 2023, funded by Arts Council England, Siân created a CD entitled "From Shadows to Light " as part of a project involving local communities. It was based around her lived experience of stalking and its far- reaching consequences.

ANDREW QUARTERMAIN was CEO and Artistic Director of Pro Corda Trust, one of the largest music charities and course providers in Europe until March 2025 which he left to pursue specific interests. As a pianist, Andrew has collaborated with some of the world’s leading artists and was a prize winner at the Guildhall where he studied after Cambridge.

He regularly appears on a wide variety of media from TV to radio, and is a regular contributor to BBC Children in Need.

His work as a teacher takes in a rare spectrum of areas and focus that stretches from coaching some of the UK’s most gifted instrumentalists to specialist work for children with autism  through to an international Piano Film series for Adult Learners.