About The Directors
Lucetta Radcliffe:
Lucetta Radcliffe is a teacher, musician and composer. She studied music at Goldsmiths College in London with a particular focus on composition.
After her studies she moved to Cornwall and worked for National Foundation for Youth Music as a community musician for CYMAZ. She also collaborated with a variety of arts practitioners as part of Luminos and worked with young people to create participant-led and devised performances.
After this she enjoyed teaching piano for many years and has worked as an Associate Lecturer in Music Theatre at Amata, Falmouth University.
She performs regularly with Radio Rio and is the music director and conductor of River Notes, a community choir based in Falmouth.
Writing the Bal Maiden musical has given her the opportunity to return to her first musical love of composing.
Fran Keene:
Fran has over 20 years of experience in the governance of social impact organisations. She is mission driven and focused on helping organisations find the best way to connect with the diverse people they serve to deliver meaningful social change and impact for local people.
She has worked in public, not for profit and commercial settings on subjects ranging from grant-making, advice giving, public sector regulation, housing, digital, strategy, change and transformation in organisations ranging from £5,000 to over £250M in annual turnover.
Fran is an expert in equity, diversity and inclusion and has a keen interest in the social history of people whose voices and stories are often excluded.
Bal Maiden Musical is an opportunity to bring to life the voices of women whose role was fundamental to the success of the early industrialised Cornish mining industry. And yet whose stories are very rarely told.
Alison Stott:
Alison Stott is a painting conservator living in Falmouth. She has lived in Falmouth for over 20 years, having moved here, with her husband and three children, from Leicester.
Alison originally trained as a conservator but has also taught English in secondary schools and English as a foreign language in Spain.
Alison has a keen interest in music and plays the cello. She plays in a couple of local orchestras. She is the secretary of Truro Sinfonia – a small chamber orchestra based in Truro. Alison is also a member of the River Notes choir.
It is this interest in music that has led to being a part of the Bal Maiden musical project. She is enjoying helping to get the musical performed next November and will also play in the band for the performances.
Mark Stott:
Mark is a chartered architect with over 30 years experience in practice. He has managed his own small business and many community building projects in Manchester, Leicester and in Cornwall.
Mark was once a founder director of a not-for-profit property developer: Leicester Social Economy Consortium.
Mark is passionate about all sorts of music, enjoys singing with the Rivernotes and tries to play the (second) violin with Truro Sinfonia.
He is hoping his musical and work experience will help Cobb Riddle & Spall to succeed with its first production – Bal Maiden.
Matt Scott
Matt Scott is a guitarist based in Cornwall who has played many styles of music over the years including rock, classical and latin music. Most recently he has played in Viper’s Dream, Kabasa, Radio Rio, Pasos Nuevos and Gogo Skank.
Prior to this he worked as a classical guitarist performing in hotels for weddings and other functions as well as a guitar teacher in local schools around Cornwall.
In 2005-6 he travelled around Mexico, Cuba and Brazil and had the opportunity to perform and study with renowned Cuban guitar teachers and performers both in the classical and jazz idioms
He also has a background in care having worked with mental health issues and people with learning difficulties in a variety of settings. He hopes to combine all these experiences in helping to put the first production of the Bal Maiden Musical together.
