Music Leaders

Meet the 2025 Music Leaders here!

NYOS Music Leaders is a one-year paid training and development programme for early career musicians based in Scotland.

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing cultural and environmental landscape, the NYOS Music Leaders programme is designed to address the core competencies, capacities and skills needed to be a successful workshop leader, music educator and innovator in tomorrow’s cultural sector and beyond. 

NYOS Music Leaders will focus on building their confidence as music educators, delivering activities to peers and groups of young people and learning strategies for effective group teaching and workshop leading. They have the opportunity to work with industry professionals and to develop their collaboration skills. Particular attention is paid to learning how to be empathetic and adaptable when working with groups of mixed ages and abilities.

Our Music Leaders are supported by a team of world-class mentors, drawn from a diverse range of disciplines:

Our Mentors, L-R: Stephen Deazley, Katrina Lee, Phil Hague, Lu Kemp

This group of mentors bring their passion and enthusiasm to the programme alongside a huge range of unique experiences and perspectives. The mentor’s role is to share this passion with their mentees, asking and answering questions, giving advice where required, provoking new ways of thinking and signposting participants to relevant further learning opportunities.