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Adam Ockelford Author

Adam Ockelford is Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton in London. He has spent the last four decades developing a theory of how music makes sense to us all, without the need for specialist knowledge or education, and he uses this theory to inform his daily engagement with children and young people across the spectrum of ability and need. He has written over 20 books and regularly lectures all over the world. His TED talk with the musical savant Derek Paravicini (with whom he has worked for 35 years), 'In the Key of Genius', can be found at www.ted.com. Adam has been a Trustee of Soundabout for over 20 years.

Victoria Furze is an illustrator, author and arts educator. She graduated from Cambridge School of Art with an MA in Illustration in 2019, since when she has continued to work on projects as an author and illustrator. She lives in Oxfordshire and also teaches drawing and illustration. Find Victoria online at www.victoriafurze.com