Chair

Treasurer

Board Member

Board member

Board Member

Board Member

Board Member

Board member

Bronwyn is a lawyer with both public and private sector experience. In the public sector she has worked in legal, policy and parliamentary roles. In the private sector, encompassing corporate and industry advocacy roles, her focus has been on legal, compliance and regulatory, including 16 years as general counsel and executive in a large financial services organisation where key responsibilities included governance and board services. She is experienced in the strategic design and execution of corporate governance, and board compliance and accountability to regulators and the broader community. She is an enthusiastic supporter of music and its performance.

Bob is a music lover and a frequent concert goer. He is an enthusiastic supporter of Luminescence, having attended their concerts for many years. He neither plays an instrument nor does he sing, much to everyone’s relief, but is a member of that particularly important group known as the audience.

Bob is an experienced Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Company Director (MAICD), including being a member of the Board of The Song Company from 2015 - 2018.

Joanna is a sometime lawyer and diplomat (with postings to Pretoria, Wellington and Accra), a current volunteer (with the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian Red Cross) and long-time concert-goer and music-lover.

She studied music and law at the University of Tasmania and has sung in choirs in Australia and overseas, including in the Nigerian High Commission’s Christmas choir in Accra. Her contribution to the Board will be informed by this broad range of experiences and interests.

Joseph has extensive experience in leadership roles in cultural organisations, including as the former CEO of Arts Capital, Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres, and M16 Artspace. Joseph has served on the boards of local and national arts organisations, including Arts Access Australia and Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and in 2015 was appointed to the ACT Arts Minister’s advisory panel to review the ACT Arts Policy.

Joseph is also an experienced social researcher, having worked as Senior Research Manager for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, and at TNS Social Research, where he consulted on projects for public and private sector clients. Joseph has also served as a volunteer board member and past Chair of the Canberra community housing provider, ECHO. Joseph holds a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours from the University of Sydney, where he studied art history and literature, specialising in twentieth-century Italian poetry

Elizabeth Minchin is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the ANU, where, apart from continuing her research projects and supervising postgraduates, she acts as curator of the ANU Classics Museum and oversees the outreach and fundraising activities of the Friends of the Museum. She is an enthusiastic audience-member and supporter of a number of music enterprises, both local and national.

Alex Raupach is an independent artist with experience in arts organisation leadership and government roles.

He is the former General Manager of Canberra International Music Festival, and has worked in the delivery of arts funding and industry development programs for the ACT Government. Through his independent consultancy Make Good Music Happen, Alex also supports project development and career development for independent artists and emerging organisations, such as the boundary-pushing concert series New North Melbourne.

As an artist, Alex is a trumpeter, improviser, composer multi-instrumentalist, who creates collaborative projects with leading Australian musicians. He was nominated for the Freedman Jazz Fellowship in 2021.

Callum’s career in the arts spans roles as fundraiser, administrator, board director and practitioner. He has spent a decade in the arts and culture sector, working across philanthropy, operations and artist development. Callum is an experienced fundraiser, relationship manager and consultant who has built strategy to diversify contributed revenue streams and maximise smart use of data. Outside his professional life, Callum is a practicing organist, conductor and recitalist, who leads an active performance schedule.