Adam Ockelford Biography

As a composer performer teacher and researcher Adam Ockelford has had a lifelong fascination for music. While attending the Royal Academy of Music in London Ockelford started working with children with special needs - a number of whom he noticed had special musical abilities too - and he became interested in how we all intuitively make sense of music without the need for formal education.
Ockelford pursued this line of inquiry and gained a PhD in music at Goldsmith's College in London in 1993 in which he set out his 'zygonic' theory of musical understanding. This theory has proved a valuable tool in music theory and analysis in investigating musical development and exploring interaction in music therapy and education.
His research interests are in music psychology education theory and aesthetics - particularly special educational needs and the development of exceptional abilities; learning memory and creativity; the cognition of musical structure and the construction of musical meaning.
Ockelford is Secretary of the Society for Education Music and Psychology Research ('SEMPRE') Chair of Soundabout an Oxfordshire-based charity that supports music provision for children and young people with complex needs; and founder of The AMBER Trust a charity that supports visually impaired children in their pursuit of music.

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