My Gurus

Olwen Cameron
I started having piano lessons when I was 12, having tinkered around a bit by myself before that. Olwen started me on a life-long love affair with the piano and helped with my all round musical education – lessons weren’t just about how to play the piano, but broader than that, she taught me not to compartmentalise what I learnt, but to think about where there were similarities across subjects (in some cases as simply as how what I’d learnt in violin lessons could apply to the piano), and how I could take a particular inspiration or experience and use it somewhere else. This has stuck with me in various situations, and, particularly with New Dots, it has made me think about what experiences and skills I have gained in the corporate world that are useful when running an arts organisation.