Associate Contractors
Our Associate Contractors have a confidential and formalised relationship with the charity. Louise, Anna and Andrew are regular freelance contractors who work closely with the charity’s trustees, devising and managing projects and carrying out the day-to-day running of the charity.
Louise Stewart
BA(Hons), PGCE, PG Cert, LTCL, NVQ, ARSCM
Louise is an advocate and educator with a background in Music. She has a particular interest in interdisciplinary studies and the common experiences which can be identified across different areas of underrepresentation and marginalisation.
Anna Williams
Anna is a professional editor and typesetter and leads on the preparation of our publications. She has extensive skills and professional knowledge with which she enhances the charity's project work.
Andrew Stewart
MEd, BA(Hons), PGCE
Bishop’s Certificate (Theology)
Andrew carries out multifarious roles for MoV supporting the Director with many practical aspects of the charity’s running.
Project Contractors
The charity benefits hugely from drawing in occasional freelance contractors with specialist expertise to support each Project. Project contractors may work across several Projects on a semi-regular basis, or may support the charity through one-off consultancy work or practical work.
Olivia Sparkhall was part of the original MoV network of teachers, performers and clergy which worked on community projects in the Salisbury area under the MoV umbrella. She contributed substantially to the anthology series Sacred Music by Women Composers as well as acting in an advisory role for the CIC. Several of her works are published by the charity including commissions.
Miriam Endersby carried out crucial research for the CIC. Her original text ‘Attesa/Expectation’ is published by the charity.
George Richford and Henry Websdale supported the anthology series with musical expertise and typesetting.
The charity is gradually building the network of freelancers who are contributing to our upcoming Projects.
Associate Advisors
Our Associate advisors are esteemed professionals who generously give of their time and skills to support the Trustees and Director.
Sarah MacDonald
MA FRCO ARSCM
Sarah is an outstanding pioneer and leader in the field of church-music, having been the first woman to hold the post of Director of Music at an Oxford or Cambridge University college. Her involvement was instrumental in launching our series Sacred Music by Women Composers.
Sarah supports MoV as an Associate through practical musical advice, networking and advocacy. Several of Sarah’s works are published by the charity, including commissions specially composed for the anthology series.
Dr Alison Daniell
Dr Alison Daniell was a member of the original Multitude of Voyces network of experts. She is a cross-disciplinary scholar and supports the charity with expertise around the fields of English literature, social and economic history and gender studies. Alison's translations of texts by the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (set by Carol J Jones, Hilary Campbell and Gemma McGregor) were the starting point for the commissions which led to the publication of MoV's anthology series Sacred Music by Women Composers.
Alison is a former barrister and an author.
In 2022 Louise was awarded Associateship of the Royal School of Church Music (ARSCM) for her work leading MoV’s anthology series.
Biography: Louise Stewart B.A.(Hons), PGCE, PG Cert, LTCL, NVQ, ARSCM:
Louise draws on her previous employed, self-employed and voluntary roles in the education and charitable sectors and combines those with her lifelong involvement in amateur and semi-professional music-making having studied Music and Music Teaching at Exeter University in the late 1980s.
For fifteen years Louise taught across the Primary curriculum (KS2) and as a Primary Music specialist (KS1-2). She had teaching and pastoral roles (particularly relating to cathedral choristers) in two cathedral schools in Exeter and Salisbury. She then moved into the state sector, working as a generalist and Music specialist in several Primary schools in the Salisbury area. Later she undertook specialist training to support children unable to access mainstream education and adults marginalised in the workplace due to dyslexia and co-occurring neuro-diversities.
Her teaching work in the wider community led to several roles in the charity sector. As a social advocate she worked for Oxfam, Barnados, Salisbury Dyslexia Association and Swan Advocacy, supporting adults who experience neuro-diversity, learning difficulties, intellectual disabilities and mental health issues. Whilst at Swan Advocacy Louise was invited to lead a pioneering project in collaboration with Wiltshire Police and other agencies which explored the needs of women in refuge as they prepared to move independently into their own homes.
Alongside these roles, for many years Louise maintained a small private practice teaching recorder and co-leading community projects with teachers, performers and clergy, focussed on inter-generational music-making and issues of social justice*.
Louise was, in less-busy times, a Salisbury area ambassador for Inclusive Church and a founder trustee of the Species Recovery Trust. She has wide experience of choral singing in choirs such as Counterpoint (dir. David Acres) and Sarum Voices (dir. Ben Lamb), and was a founder member of Salisbury Cathedral Chamber Choir.
In 2022 the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) generously acknowledged Louise’s work for Multitude of Voyces as having ‘transformed the landscape’ of sacred music in the UK.
*These projects led eventually to the formalisation of Multitude of Voyces initially as a Community Interest Company (2019-2022) which converted to registered charity status in 2022. Louise stepped aside from a governance role at that point, closely following the guidance set out by the Charity Commission for England and Wales for charity founders who need to continue in a paid role. She now works on behalf of the trustees, managing most of the charity’s affairs and leading its projects.
Andrew Stewart MEd, BA(Hons), PGCE Bishop’s Certificate (Theology):
Andrew is a freelance countertenor, having been a chorister in the 1970s at Salisbury Cathedral, a choral scholar at Exeter Cathedral (while taking his degree in Geography and IT), and a layclerk at Salisbury Cathedral for 23 years. Alongside his professional singing he was a teacher at Salisbury Cathedral School for 27 years. He is now a regular member of Cantores Michaelis based in Southampton.
Away from singing Andrew works with vulnerable adults, supporting them with their IT needs, and carries out multifarious roles for MoV supporting the Director with many practical aspects of the charity’s running.