Concert  Promoters'  Committee 

 

Rosemary Allen: Secretary  contact

 

Since Rosemary retired, she has become actively involved with Making Music and has been on the Regional Committee, first of the Southern area, then the South Western area, She is now Chairman of the South West Regional Committee and edits the newsletter for the South West.  She has been on the Concert Promoter’s Committee since 2004.  

Rosemary is Treasurer of the Bournemouth Chamber Music Society and also runs their Young Musicians’ Development Scheme.  She is a member of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus.  She regularly attends the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts and enjoys going to the opera and the theatre.  

 

Rosemary taught English and Communications at Bournemouth and Poole College after gaining a degree as a ‘mature’ student.  She has also worked in an insurance office and an accounts department.  She has three grown-up children and five grandchildren.  Rosemary has written a collection of short stories, one of which has been broadcast on Radio 4, and at present she is working on a novel.  Her intention is to try to get all these published, when she gets round to sending them away!