Twogether Duo and Carol Major

Stay Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has supplied gifted musicians on the outset of their careers with skilled efficiency and coaching alternatives, making dwell music accessible to all members of society, no matter their circumstances. 

In March 2025, Carol Major MBE FRC will step again from her function as Director of Stay Music Now Scotland (LMNS) – a put up she has held for the reason that founding of this organisation in 1984. In Carol Major’s first 12 months at , working half a day per week, LMNS placed on 60 concert events, with a handful of classical ensembles; in the present day, that determine has elevated greater than tenfold, with no less than 750 performances being delivered by a present pool of round 145 musicians.

The LMNS Board has requested that Carol stay in a part-time consultancy function after March 2025, with a particular deal with fundraising and to proceed her work with Stay Music Now Worldwide. 

Amanda Forsyth, Chair of LMNS, mentioned “The debt of gratitude that the entire Stay Music Now household owes to Carol is inconceivable to quantify. Over the forty years of her Directorship, LMNS has grown and thrived, regardless of many challenges alongside the best way – a residing tribute to Carol’s vitality, talent and dedication to sharing the enjoyment of music as extensively as potential. Our activity now, as a Board of Trustees, is to search out the very particular individual who’s going to have the ability to choose up the baton, and conduct LMNS by means of the years to come back.”

The function of Chief Government has been marketed, with purposes to be obtained by thirty first July 2024. 

Full particulars from the LMNS web site.