THE MUSIC AND DANCE SCHEME ADVISORY GROUP
Between 1999 and 2000 the Department undertook a wide-ranging review of the scheme with the help of consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers. One of the recommendations in their Final Report was to set up an Advisory Group to oversee the future operation and development of the MDS.
The Group was established by Estelle Morris, then Minister of State, in September 2000. Roger Lewis, then Managing Director and Programme Controller at Classic fM was appointed Chairman, with 14 other members, drawing on people with experience and knowledge of the music and dance worlds, the education and training of young musicians and dancers, and from business and the performing arts. The Group was extended in 2001 and 2002, and re-constituted in 2004 to include more representation from the maintained performing arts sector and from the wider dance sector. Tony Hall, Chief Executive at the Royal Opera House, succeeded Roger Lewis as Chairman in 2004.
The Group has now completed its work and was wound up in the Summer 2007. Its last published report can be downloaded from this page (see below).
Advisory Group's Fifth Report 2004/05
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Members of the Advisory Group in 2006/07
Chairman : Tony Hall, CEO Royal Opera House, London.
Mr John Baxter, consultant, former Headmaster of Wells Cathedral School and former Chairman of the National Association of Music and Dance Schools and the Choir Schools' Association.
Ms Hilary Boulding, Music Director at Arts Council England.
Mr Colin Brackley-Jones, CEO of the Federation of Music Services.
Professor George Caird, Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Mr Nicolas Chisholm, Headmaster of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey, representing the National Association of Music and Dance Schools.
Ms Christina Coker, CEO of the National Foundation for Youth Music.
Mr Keith Hewson, Director of Music at Egglescliffe School, Stockton-on-Tees, a maintained specialist performing arts college.
Ms Linda Jasper, Director of Youth Dance England (YDE).
Ms Veronica Jobbins, Head of Professional Studies at Laban and Chair of the National Dance Teachers Association (NDTA).
Ms Veronica Lewis, Director of London Contemporary Dance School.
Ms Jeanette Siddall, Independent Adviser on Dance and former Director of Dance at Arts Council England.
Mr Richard White, Director of Development for the Choir Schools' Association and former Headmaster of Polwhele House School, Truro
