Music and Theatre for All

MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL (MTFA) is an ambitious London based charity combining classical and community programmes to make excellence accessible to anyone, anywhere they work, regardless of their age, culture, means or background. They are a registered charity producing acclaimed, cutting-edge work to unite diverse audiences led by world-class professionals, to create and experience in opera, music and theatre. MTFA was founded in 2014 by internationally acclaimed director/musician Thomas Guthrie, an innovative, award-winning British director & musician working at the highest level. A former 'Jette Parker Young Artist' Stage Director at the Royal Opera House (ROH), Artistic Advisor to the York Early Music Festival & Belknap Fellow at Princeton.

It was exciting to be working closely with Tom and the team to secure funding for their three main  programmes: Lewisham Urban Opera (LUO) and the Lewisham Creative Chorus that has grown out of it; Schubert 200, an 8yr programme started in 2020, in which MTFA is recording, touring and animating all 3 of Franz Schubert’s iconic song cycles for their 200th anniversaries and, The Hive, a ground breaking idea for democratising performance through innovation.