The Glasshouse

The Glasshouse is a home for live music lovers.

It’s a place where you can hear rock legends or pop icons on the same night as folk trios or opera singers. Where new musicians are nurtured and showcased on the same stages as platinum-selling performers. And where youth choirs and tambourine-shaking toddlers practise in the same spaces as our acclaimed orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Because as an international centre for music we’re focused on creating and celebrating outstanding music – whether that’s unearthing or growing talent from our region or bringing the world’s best artists to our stages. And as a charity we’re focused on making sure all of that is available to anyone – no matter where you’re from, how old you are, how much money you have, or what challenges you face.

Which is why every year more than 2 million people are able to join us for top-notch gigs, concerts, and classes – in our own venue at Gateshead Quays, out in communities across the North East, and through livestreamed performances and digital lessons.

So whether you’re making it up or taking it in, you’ll find music lives and grows here.

Andy Haldane
Chair of North Music Trust

Emily Cox MBE (Deputy Chair)
Head of Colleague Relations, Lloyds Banking Group

Rory Bruce Cowen
Musician

Puja Girish Darbari
Managing Director (UK) and Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Communications, International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD)

Gabriel Francis Patrick Day
Founder, Ape Team Ltd (Event and Venue Management)

Jacqui Hodgson
Former BBC Reporter, Correspondent, Producer and Editor

Jo Lawson
Head of Governance, Girlguiding

Ruth Lyon
Local Singer-Songwriter

Eleanor McGreevy
Communications Officer, Newcastle Theatre Royal

Dale Owens
Chief Executive, Gateshead Council

Mags Scott
Director of Finance and Investment, North East Combined Authority
Newcastle University Council Member

Jane Spiers OBE
Chair, National Theatre of Scotland

Tony Wadsworth CBE
Former Chairman and CEO, EMI Music UK