MICK DORAN
Founding Director
Mick is a multi-faceted music professional, Principal Percussionist with English National Opera and a guest with all the UK’s major orchestras, working in opera, symphonic, film and ballet music.

He has enormous experience working on music projects with people across our community,
including commissions to create Jazz Rigoletto for Westminster Council, The Carmen Story for schools in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, The Soldiers Day in Hackney, It’s a Musical World for the National Maritime Museum and Carmen for Families for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has participated in outreach work for the Royal Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Ballet.
Mick runs musical workshops focusing on leadership for Coaching Centred Leadership, working in partnership with companies such as Virgin Media and Voneus.
He is honoured to be an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.