THE islands are alive with the sound of music and Autumn Curtis-Summer wants Guernsey’s corporate community to embrace it. The multi-instrumentalist is starting an agency to promote the use of musicians and back talent throughout the Bailiwick.

Her business idea is called LMent – short for Live Music Entertainment – and it made the final three at last month’s Bright Young Things competition.

‘When I was a university student I worked for a music agent and he organised my bookings and got me lots of work,’ said Ms Curtis-Summer, 29 (pictured). ‘In Guernsey, I realised that people were finding it hard to track me down as a musician because there is no central agency. If people struggle to find information of any kind, they tend to give up, so as with all service businesses, my idea is about making life easier.’

Ms Curtis-Summers’s pitch at BYT involved the surprise use of musicians planted in the audience to demonstrate the power of music at events. ‘I was surprised to get to the final. Putting together the presentation in a week proved I could do it by supplying diverse acts at short notice.’