I am taking part in the Music in the Round Grade-a-thon! Please sponsor me as I take on the challenge of learning a new instrument in just a few months.

I started playing the horn aged 8, but before that I used to enjoy hitting things like bass drums and xylophones. A drum kit was given to me as a birthday present a few months ago, and so many, many (many!) years later, I am finally returning to my very beginnings of music-making and taking my Grade 1 Snare Drum!

Fitting it in around everything else (moving house, studying for an MBA, full-time job, Chair of Classical Sheffield, etc) is proving challenging, but I want to raise funds for Music in the Round so we can do amazing activity to inspire music-makers of all ages in Sheffield.

It will spur me on to keep practising if you sponsor me, so...