Naomi Belshaw

Originally trained as an archaeologist, 15 years ago Naomi swapped her hobby in music for her career. Taking up roles across the music industry, including at PRS for Music, PRS Foundation, and WildKat PR. She has a wealth of experience in the arts, particularly in contemporary music. In 2019 Naomi set up her own consultancy to be able to offer composers and artists more formally, help in their careers, drawing on her uniquely broad perspective in funding, festival curation, publishing, licensing, sync, royalties, PR, marketing and more. In 2022 she was accepted onto the world's only independent funding and professional development programme MMF Accelerator, designed exclusively for artist, songwriter, DJ & producer managers, aimed to further the ambitions of talented entrepreneurs, supported by YouTube Music, Arts Council England & Creative Scotland.

Naomi is also currently Chair of the Three Choirs Festival, thought to be the oldest classical Festival in the World at 300 years. In her spare time, Naomi is a keen fan of single malt whisky hosting a blog pairing whisky with classical music and also plays violin in Progressive Rock Band The Wood Demons.