The CEO of Music For Galway, the brains behind Cellissimo (a new triennial cello festival on the edge of Europe), and the woman responsible for Songs of Travel (a transnational project raising awareness of climate change and migration through music), Anna Lardi has lots on her plate at the moment… though she wouldn’t have it any other way.To be honest, I have wanted to be many different things, which, in my view, is kind of a necessary qualification for this sort of job.
But in there, of course, was my current role as CEO of a music organisation…to be a primary school teacher. Later, I went back to do a degree in the humanities with a focus on art history.working in the bowels of our local hospital, cleaning the beds of patients who had left the hospital or had left for good. People in that section get dirty beds in one door, have to strip and clean them, do them up again and shove them out another. Nobody says ‘please’ or ‘thank you’. Yet thanks to the great relationship among that team, it turned out to be a great experienc