•Dr Kitty Fadlu-Deen, D.Phil, M.A., Dip. In Mus, Teach, LRAM, LRSM.

Co-founder and Director of the Ballanta Academy of Music. Formerly Head of the Performing Arts Department at Milton Margai College of Education. Principal of the Ballanta Academy of Music since 2002. Teacher of Piano, Voice, Theory of Music, Harmony and History. Choral Director of the Ballanta Music Makers. Consultant on music education.

•Mr Felix Macaulay, Certified Accounting Technician (CAT)

Secretary and Finance Officer at the Ballanta Academy of Music since 2006. Member of the Ballanta Music Makers. Chorister at Buxton Memorial Methodist Church.

•Mr Leslie N.M. Cummings-Wray, HTC Performing Arts, ABRSM Theory Grade 6

Teacher of Drum kit, Recorder, Guitar, Saxophone, Piano and Theory of Music at the Ballanta Academy of Music since 2003. Supervisor of the Ballanta Academy Dance Band.

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