Tertia Sefton-Green

I am Creative Director at HMDT Music, twice winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education (2004 and 2008), a leader in developing inspiring arts projects and commissioning new performance works, which support other areas of learning, enriching participant experience, increasing skills and raising aspirations. HMDT Music's large-scale success include Trench Brothers, a First World War project focusing on ethnic minority soldiers which includes puppetry, artefacts handling, composition and performances of a new work by Julian Joseph and Richard Taylor which has toured to 25 schools; Shadowball, a ground- breaking schools’ baseball project and opera by Julian Joseph celebrating the Negro Leagues players; Confucius Says involving 3000 students from nine schools in the creation and development of a new opera by Richard Taylor, linked to the Beijing Olympics and Hear Our Voice, an international project based on children’s Holocaust writings, which toured to, and was performed by, students from Prague, London and Nuremberg. Core programmes include The Saturday Programme comprising The Music Box (under 4s), CYMH Instrumental School, I Can Sing! Music Theatre School and The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, and from September Music Treehouse SEN/D stream which provide music training opportunities and a means of sustaining and ensuring skills progression from large-scale school projects. One Spirit is a rehabilitation project working with young offenders in Feltham, engaging them in developing life skills through music, alongside mentoring both inside and upon release, to help prevent reoffending. www.hmdt.org.uk