Making Sound Waves: Musical transformations
Event details
Music has been acknowledged to have the ability to change how people feel and to be therapeutic since time immemorial. However, it’s only in the past half century or so that music therapy as a clinical discipline has become more broadly available and recognised as an allied health care profession.
The founder of Jessie’s Fund Lesley Schatzberger and music therapists Aby Vulliamy and Joe Harrison-Greaves will discuss the important role Jessie’s Fund has played in giving children access to both music therapy and creative music-making. Watch clips of specialist music practitioners working with children and young people and enjoy a short performance by school children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Come along and discover how music can provide a powerful and profound way for children to express themselves and connect with the world around them.
Find out more about York-based Jessie’s Fund and how it helps children with additional and complex needs or serious illness to communicate by using music.
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About the speakers
Lesley Schatzberger is a clarinettist who has worked in a range of music-making – from performing with Stockhausen to playing extensively with orchestras such as the English Baroque Soloists and Academy of Ancient Music. In 1995 she established Jessie's Fund in memory of her nine-year-old daughter. Lesley teaches at the University of York: in 2006 this institution awarded her an honorary doctorate, and in 2021 she was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Northern College of Music.
Aby Vulliamy is a music therapist specialising in working with children and adolescents with additional needs related to health conditions, physical disability, learning disability, neurodiversity, trauma and mental health difficulties. She was a lecturer on the Music Therapy MSc at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh for four years. She has benefited several times from Jessie’s Fund’s brilliant work establishing new Music Therapy provisions in a range of different settings. Aby plays viola, piano and flute.
Joe Harrison-Greaves is based in Manchester and has been working with music and people for nearly 20 years. Qualified as a music therapist, Joe’s work has always been about the power of music to connect people. Over the years Joe has worked in communities, education, and mental health settings with people from 0 to 100 years old. However, through his 12-year involvement with Jessie’s Fund, Joe has specialised in working with people with additional needs, and has a particular interest in the development of accessible ensembles.
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