Gillian Perkins founded the Cambridge Music Festival and directed every festival until 2010. Under her directorship the festival became a national event, famous not just for its world class concerts, but especially renowned for the scope of its education and community programme. In an earlier life Gillian worked for BBC Radio 3, the Performing Right Society and for Eastern Arts (now Arts Council England East). Gillian lives in Cambridge with her husband who plays violin in a local orchestra. Their two sons were both choristers at King’s, and Gillian also worked with Stephen Cleobury to set up Easter at King’s, a series which she managed for the college until 2010, when she retired from both King’s and CMF. In retirement Gillian is a member of New Cambridge Singers, and a trustee of the London Mozart Players, the Ouseley Trust as well as KJV.