2009 Conference Summary and Presentations

ABO Conference 2009 - Cardiff

Many thanks to all our delegates and speakers for making the 2009 conference a great success. Below you can find some of the presentations and speeches that were given during the conference. Our thanks to the speakers concerned for allowing us to publish them here.

 Opening Address by Rt Hon Lord Kinnock, Chair, British Council

Session 2

Healthy Orchestra - Noise Regulations One Year On

Ruth Hansford's research and data from the BBC

Jaqueline Patel's report on musicians response to hearing protection

Session 3

Data Protection

Andrew Sharpe's presentation slides.

Andrew has also written a briefing paper for ABO members on the use and sharing of data which can be found here

Session 4

Sustaining the Audience

Diane Ragsdale's speech on Surviving the Culture Change

Sustainable Finance

Heather Lamont's presentation from CCLA

David Williams presentation from Grant Thornton

Nigel Tyrrell's presentation from Unity Bank

Session 5

Measuring the Impact

John Holden - Demos

Mediasnackers Masterclass.

Read DK's blog of the masterclass here

Session 6

Chamber Orchestras in Wales

Notes from ACW on the discussions from the session