Board of Trustees
As a registered charity we comply with UK law governing charitable bodies. Oversight of the organisation is provided by a board of trustees.
Trustees
Kathryn Templeman – Chair – Lead for Examinations
Kathryn has a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Management from the University of Bath. She is a musician and a qualified music teacher, as well as a Dalcroze Certificate holder. She plays regularly as a violinist with OAE and other historical performance groups. She is currently the Principal of an International Baccalaureate World School in Denmark. In addition, Kathryn works for the IBO as a school visitor, workshop leader, and MYP examiner.
David Parfrey – Treasurer – Lead for Finance
David Parfrey brings over forty years of experience working across a wide range of organisations, developing a strong belief that people are at the heart of meaningful and lasting achievement. His career has been shaped by collaboration, enabling teams to realise ambitious goals and supporting others’ growth and development. He has been involved in significant projects, including major real estate developments such as the Babraham Research Campus, where a shared vision helped deliver substantial new scientific facilities. His work reflects a long-standing interest in the relationship between present decisions and future impact, with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and long-term thinking.
David is the founder of Imagineering Futures, a consultancy approach that combines strategic vision with practical experience to support transformation within organisations and communities. He is particularly committed to the role of science and engineering in driving progress, creating opportunities, and addressing complex challenges. As Treasurer of Dalcroze UK, he brings this breadth of experience, strategic insight, and people-focused approach to support the organisation’s ongoing development and sustainability.
Mary Price-O’Connor – Lead for Membership and Projects
Mary is an Interdisciplinary artist working with sound, music, movement and text. Having studied music at Dartington College of Arts, she moved to London, where she worked as a violinist, composer, and performer, becoming a silent film accompanist in 2003 and, in 2008, training as a Dalcroze Eurhythmics Teacher. She has participated as an improviser/deviser/performer/facilitator across many different platforms, including” The Chaosbaby Project “ with Stella Duffy, “Through The Door “with Angela Clerkin and Improbable, and working with Spare Tyre Theatre company. She plays with the band “Selkie”. Mary recently appeared in the short dance film premiered on BBC4 “We are Ready Now”, made by dancer and choreographer Jack Thompson, and performed as an actor /musician in Shakespeare’s Globe theatre film “Christmas at the Snow Globe” (December 2020), having been a member of the original cast at the Globe theatre in December 2019. Mary has also taught and participated in collaborative pieces online throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and has continued to develop her ongoing research project, “The Moving Theatre Lab”.
Sui Ming Chu – Lead for Well-Being
Dalcroze Practitioner and Choreologist, currently completing the final year of an MFA in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Her research seeks to bring dance and music together through Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Laban’s praxis.
From 2009 to 2023, she taught extensively in Hong Kong and China, working with institutions such as the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, Hong Kong Baptist University, and a range of local and international schools and community groups. In 2025, she joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Junior Department) as Deputy Eurhythmics Teacher. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, obtained a GGSM in 1986, obtained a Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in music and movement from Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale: Institut Jacques Dalcroze, Geneva, in 2009, earned a Dalcroze Certificate UK in 2010, and a Movement Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies from Trinity Laban, UK, in 2018. She joined Dalcroze UK in 2000.
Paul Fleet – Lead for Education and Quality Assurance
Paul Fleet is a global educator, author, and speaker, and Professor of Authentic Music Theory and Dean of Infrastructure at Newcastle University, UK. Authentic Music Theory supports a discipline that places education in vocational and practical contexts while preserving those contexts’ critical and theoretical dimensions. Authentic Music Theory recognises that the discipline needs to situate education within vocational and practical contexts, while safeguarding those contexts’ critical and theoretical dimensions. The work of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze has been an influential part of Paul’s scholarship and teaching over the last ~30 years, first in the private sector and then across Higher Education Institutions. It is not only part of his research publications, most notably ‘Rethinking the Guidonian hand for twenty-first-century musicians’ (July 2017), but also a significant element of his pedagogy, for example, teaching embodied air-drumming/beat boxing techniques for rhythmic analysis or using Star Wars Light Sabre/Harry Potter Wands to find the pulse and then the time signature.
Paul is an experienced leader across Higher Education with professional recognition as an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow (2021) and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. He is also an Advance HE-qualified trainer for their professional development course for External Examiners, and a mentor/coach for colleagues in their professional educational development across various disciplines.