Paulette Bayley

Trustee

Paulette Bayley's violin studies started as a Suzuki pupil, continued at the
Purcell School as a government aided scholar, the Junior Department of
Guildhall School of Music& Drama and the Royal Northern College of
Music.

Her professional life began as a member of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra before joining Hallé in 2004. She has also worked with the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Scottish
Orchestras and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Paulette has tutored for National Youth Orchestra, Orchestras For All, the
Hallé’s Youth Orchestra, and supports young string players who, as part
of the Hallé Advanced Orchestral String Programme perform in projects alongside the orchestra. In 2021 she was invited to adjudicate RNCM’s
Norman George Scholarship and regularly coaches the college’s violin sections for orchestral projects. Paulette is also a violin tutor at Chetham‘s School of Music.

Paulette is committed to investing in people from our global community
and is passionate about inclusivity and belonging for all underrepresented groups within the sector. In November ‘23 she joined a panel for Black Lives in Music (BLiM) Recruiting Classical initiative and
has mentored for BLiM and Vengerov‘s Mentoring
Program. Paulette joined Tonic’s Changemakers’ Programme which
launched in 2024 allowing her to explore Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and
Belonging and how we exercise the positive action needed for inclusion of global majority musicians within orchestras. Since June
‘24 Paulette has been leading the Hallé’s review of its policy for recruitment of players with a particular focus on inclusivity and
accessibility.