John Bickley

John is Business Manager of ARU's StoryLab Research Institute, working with StoryLab’s staff, students and external partners to support the smooth running of StoryLab and its projects.

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Background

Since reading English at Queens' College, Cambridge, John has been involved in the music business as an artist manager (representing on a worldwide basis such groups as The Hilliard Ensemble, The Sixteen, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and many contemporary classical ensembles), as Development Director of Britten Sinfonia and The Sixteen, and as label manager of CORO.

John was the founding Chair of the International Artist Managers’ Association, and is currently the European Governor of the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion. He is a trustee of Cambridge Early Music, The King’s Singers Foundation, and Sir James MacMillan’s Cumnock Tryst. He has an Open University MBA.

Qualifications

• MA English, Queens’ College, Cambridge
• MBA The Open University