Hello, I’m Tamzin
I’m a freelance Arts Manager and Creative Consultant with over 18 years’ experience in opera, classical music and theatre. My work spans strategic planning, project management, fundraising, creative producing and dramaturgy.
Following roles with the Royal Opera House, London Philharmonic Orchestra and English National Opera, I took the leap in 2019 to develop my career as a freelance consultant. Since then I’ve been engaged as a Tours Manager, Creative Producer, Interim General Manager, Executive Producer, Dramaturg, and Strategic Fundraising Consultant, working with a wide range of organisations including Wilton’s Music Hall, Southbank Centre, The Hallé, Intermusica Artists’ Management, St. Endellion’s Summer Festival, VOPERA: The Virtual Opera Project (winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera 2021), The Association of Exiled Scots, BBC Young Composer, BBC Proms and Handpicked Productions.
I serve as a Trustee & Director of Play for Progress, a brilliant charity delivering therapeutic and educational music and arts programmes, advocacy, and wellbeing support for unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK.
I’m a happy hybrid of Excel geek and creative practitioner, and am equally happy in strategic, administrative and creative roles. I want to make and support the making of work that is artistically excellent, economically sustainable, widely accessible and does some good in the world.
I’m also an accredited Life & Transition coach working with people who want to lead more balanced, intentional, values-driven lives. When I’m not working I spend as much time outside as possible, rock climbing, swimming and walking in the mountains of Cumbria, where I’m now based.
What I’m About
MY WORKING ETHOS
I believe the process of any creative endeavour defines the end product. The performing arts can be transformative for our audiences and practitioners alike. The process of making the work is just as important as its presentation. In a nutshell, if you’re making critically-acclaimed work but treating people badly to achieve that, the work is worthless. As such, I place the wellbeing and satisfaction of the teams involved in delivering any work I’m involved in at the centre of my thinking and practice, and I prioritise working with people who hold those same values.
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING
Storytelling is part of what makes us human. It is a form and function of imagination. We have been telling stories for millennia: through words, and pictures, and music, and movement and light. Storytelling can broaden our understanding of ourselves and our world, and deepen our sense of empathy and empowerment. The stories we choose to tell are as important as how we tell them.
I want to make work that tells a rich, wide range of stories told by the people they relate to, to audiences that see themselves reflected in that work.