Introducing our new Trustees

We’re thrilled to announce that Guy Farmer and Eleanor Ward have been appointed to The Marian Consort’s Board of Trustees. Both bring a huge amount of experience from the commercial and charity sectors, and we look forward to working with them in the coming years as we continue to grow as an organisation.

Find out more about Guy and Eleanor below.

Guy Farmer

Guy has more than 30 years of commercial experience working for global FMCG, retail and ecommerce. He has always had a love of music and particularly of choral singing having been a chorister in Leicester and a choral scholar at Oxford, and he now sings with St Peter’s singers in Peterborough. Guy is Chair of the Board of Directors for Nevill Holt Opera, serving on the board for the last 9 years during which time it has built a new opera house in the East Midlands and developed a thriving schools and education programme, alongside a growing summer opera festival.

Eleanor Ward

Eleanor has over a decade and a half of strategic leadership, programming, producing, fundraising and management experience in new music. She has worked in arts funding for Arts Council England and PRS Foundation, as Programme Manager for music education charity Sound Connections, Festival Producer for Field Day and Spitalfields Music Festival, co-founder and Project Director of Street Orchestra Live, and as Executive Director for Nonclassical, the ground-breaking new music promoter, record label and events producer. She is currently Network Development Director for the Jazz Promotion Network, alongside her work as a freelance music consultant and creative producer.

Guy and Eleanor join Ed, Harry, Zoe and Morgan on our Board, who you can read more about here.