Charles Beer was for twenty years a partner at KPMG, specialising in taxation. He is now a consultant to KPMG and a number of other organisations.

Music has always been an important part of Charles's life. He is a keen amateur pianist and singer, with a passion for early and baroque music. Music is also part of his family life and three of his children are musicians of considerably higher ability than he is. 

He wishes that all talented children could have the same educational opportunities in music that his own children have had, and strongly believes that Future Talent can help achieve this.