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Natalia wears many hats as Nonclassical's Executive Director including planning its future, developing partnerships, making artistic decisions, fundraising and collaborating with a brilliant team of staff and trustees. Her background lies in producing projects with the London Symphony Orchestra, Sound and Music and Multi-Story Orchestra mostly enabling artists to develop through realising their visions (or close enough!). She’s often found waxing lyrical about equality of opportunity, listening to the radio, cooking or finding ways to engage with nature as a frustrated Londoner. She's Trustee of the Mick Jagger Centre, attached to her old grammar school.

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Marcella has been working with Nonclassical since Feb 2023, first as Events and Marketing Manager and now as Events and Artist Development Manager. She is responsible for producing Nonclassical's events, running the Artists in Residence Scheme and A&R across live and recorded mediums. Marcella is also a composer, performer and producer, working with multi-disciplinary artists across the UK and America.

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Henri oversees everything label-related at Nonclassical. A musician and composer by trade, he has worked across the music industry in various roles from running boutique labels to curating concerts. In his spare time he enjoys Brutalist architecture, slow-paced 70s movies and Nordic silver lakes.

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Gabriel is a composer, producer, DJ and founder of Nonclassical. He has been one of the leading proponents of presenting classical music in non-traditional venues; and he regularly performs in East London nightclubs, warehouses and electronic music festivals, often DJing and doing live remixes of the works just performed.

Gabriel studied electroacoustic composition under Jonty Harrison in Birmingham, and a Masters in composition with Ambrose Field & Roger Marsh. He is published by both Faber Music and Mute Song, and resides in Hackney, London, with his wife and their three young children.

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Stephen is the Nonclassical Finance Manager. He brings a wealth of experience from working in voluntary, charity and creative enterprises including a community radio station, CND, a credit union and photographic agencies. Stephen loves walking in Epping Forest, dancing, indulging his love of artisan perfumes and is a dab hand at wrangling pears to optimum ripeness.

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Áine Devaney is a multidisciplinary storyteller and strategist working across video, sound and cultural production. As Marketing Manager for nonclassical, she focuses on brand strategy and artist storytelling.

Having lived across Europe, she has contributed to publications including Resident Advisor, Crack Magazine, and Huck Magazine, and produced audio work for the BBC, Rádio Quântica, and NTS.

She is also a DJ and radio host, presenting Strange Pleasures, and previously worked as a music researcher for composer Jóhann Jóhannsson on projects including Mandy and Last and First Men. Her wider practice spans documentary and audio production, with an interest in the intersection of culture, community, and sound.

Aileen Douthwaite

Aileen has worked across the UK in a variety of education posts including latterly as CEO for a Music Education Hub. Now an independent arts consultant, she is looking forward to supporting Nonclassical and its Executive Team as a non executive board member.

Aaron Holloway Nahum

Aaron is a composer, conductor, recording engineer and sound artist working at the intersection of contemporary concert music and multi media. As a conductor and arts entrepreneur, he most prominently serves as the conductor, Chief Executive, and co-Artistic Director of Riot Ensemble, an organization that gives more than thirty performances per year and has premiered over 350 original works.

Alan Davey

Alan Davey has a long career in public service including Health, Music, and the Arts more widely. He has been Director of Arts and Culture for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as CEO of Arts Council England he oversaw the ‘Great Art and Culture for Everyone’ strategy and expanded the remit of the Council into Libraries, Museums and Archives. He was Controller of BBC Radio 3, the Proms and the BBC Orchestras and Choirs from 2014 to 2023. He is Chair of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in South-East London.

William Norris (chair)

William Norris is a consultant working for a wide range of music and arts organisations, with recent and current clients including Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra, Sage Gateshead, the European Union Youth Orchestra, site specific theatre company Dante or Die and Dunedin Consort. He has also held leadership positions at Scottish Ensemble (Maternity Cover), Southbank Sinfonia and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and prior to that led communications, marketing and creative programming at the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, where he developed the ensembles' Night Shift series. Read our interview with William here.

Karen Lee

Karen previously held leadership roles at BlackRock and Allen & Overy, and now provides commercial and legal advisory services to high growth technology companies and creative arts businesses. She is passionate about climate issues, health and wellbeing and the arts. She brings deep experience, and a broad and diverse network, across tech, finance, law, film and music and is always looking for ways to build relationships and collaborate across these different communities.

Marianne Wright

Marianne Wright is senior fundraiser at Royal Museums Greenwich. Her interest in charity governance grew through working with Arch Sinfonia, and she has held roles with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Street Orchestra Live. Earning a first-class honours degree in classical vocal performance at Trinity Laban Marianne recalls a formative experience performing at an early Nonclassical club night which solidified the transformative power of experimental music-making for her. She has since been a committed advocate for artists pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions, passions she is excited to bring to Nonclassical alongside her wealth of professional expertise.

Nick Rampley

Nick Rampley is the Director of Resources and Operations at the City and Guilds Art School and previously Vice Principal of Morley College and Director of Finance and Administration at the Purcell School specialist music school. Nick is also a trustee of the Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust, the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust, the Margaret Engering Music Trust and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra where he is also principal bassoon.

Toby Young

Toby Young is Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where his work spans composing, producing, and developing innovative approaches to music-making. His music has been commissioned and performed worldwide. Alongside this work, he has built a substantial cross-genre profile, collaborating with artists including Chase & Status and the Rolling Stones.

Dominic Murcott

Dominic Murcott is a composer, percussionist, curator and educator based in London, and whose music has been released on Nonclassical. Beginning as a self-taught musician he played drums and percussion with many influential bands, notably as the vibraphonist with art-pop outfit The High Llamas and drummer with Ted Milton’s no-wave trio Blurt. Recording has been with Stereolab, Pavement, Cathal Coughlan and St Etienne to name a few. He received a PhD in Acoustic and Electronic Composition from Goldsmiths College before being made Head of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Now in his 23rd year in the post, the department is oversubscribed and renowned for its innovative approach to composition training and focus on community. An avid forager and cook, he presented a special event on taste in food and music at the British Library with legendary chef Heston Blumenthal in 2019.

Tariq Bhatty

Tariq Bhatty is a lawyer at Warner Music, working in international legal and business affairs to support some of the world’s most popular current and legacy artists. Alongside his legal career, Tariq is a trained music student and active performing musician, with a longstanding involvement in live music and collaborative projects.

Drawing on his experience as both a musician and music-industry lawyer, he is particularly interested in how organisations can create accessible pathways for musicians working outside traditional spaces.

Jessica Cottis

Conductor Jessica Cottis works regularly with leading ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, and at the Royal Opera House and BBC Proms. Her domain is music of the 20th-century to the current day. Based in London, she is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and Distinguished Visiting Conductor at the Australian National University. Read our interview with Jessica here.