Katharine Kent studied music for five years in Oxford after leaving school.  She has a long term and ongoing involvement with the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and was one of the inital trustees of Youth Music when it was launched 10 years ago.

She also has a passionate interest in Aldeburgh Music in Suffolk and the extraordinary legacy and enterprise left there by Benjamin Britten.

Recently Katharine taught music for 13 years in a primary school in East Hull which became the inspiration for setting up Future Talent in 2004.