Our Director is moving on!

Philip Flood, Director of Sound Connections, will be leaving the charity after 14 years at the end of September 2024. He joined in 2010 and went onto establish it as a leading music education charity, taking it from its role supporting young people and organisations in London to having a national and international profile.

The board of Sound Connections have initiated a recruitment process and expect to announce a succession plan in the coming weeks.

Reflecting on his 14 years at the organisation, Philip Flood said:

Credit: India Mae Alby.

“I am enormously proud of what Sound Connections has achieved over the last 14 years. Our continued support from Youth Music since 2002 and becoming an ACE NPO in April 2023 is a real testament to the vital need for this sort of work. However, what fills me most with joy are the people I have been privileged to work with. The whole team and Trustees have been enormously supportive throughout, and I am very grateful for that.”

Norton York, Chair of Trustees at Sound Connections, said:

“Philip has been a remarkable Director of Sound Connections. He has managed to balance the organisation’s diverse and complementary roles in London and throughout the U.K. with care, humility and expertise, qualities that are widely recognised by friends and colleagues throughout the music and music education worlds. We wish Philip every happiness and success in the future and know he will continue to make a beneficial contribution to the musical life of the country in everything he does. The trustees and I are now in the process of providing new leadership for Sound Connections and we look forward to announcing this over the Summer.”