 The charity was founded in 1988 by Dr Paul Whittaker, OBE, himself a profoundly deaf musician.Now led by Artistic Director Danny Lane, following Paul’s resignation in 2015, the charity continues to build an international reputation for pushing the boundaries of what deaf people can aspire to and achieve in music.Since 2007 Music and the Deaf has run the Deaf Youth Orchestra of West Yorkshire, and has been developed nationally from 2010.