Adam Ockelford Explained
Adam Ockelford is a Professor of Music and Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, London.[1] He wrote the official biography of Derek Paravicini entitled "In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini".
Education
Adam Ockelford gained a BMus(hons) at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he gained two LRAMs (in the oboe and harpsichord) and won four prizes.[2] He studied for a Diploma in Special Education (Visual Impairment) at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, and earned his PhD in Music from the Goldsmiths College in London.
Research and career
Adam Ockelford created the zygonic model of music-structural understanding, which was subsequently used to inform the Sounds of Intent framework of musical development.[3]
After leaving college, Ockelford started his career teaching at the Linden Lodge School for the Blind in London.[4] He then worked at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), initially as Music Education Advisor before serving as Director of Education. He now works at the University of Roehampton in London as Director of the Applied Music Research Centre. With his longtime pupil Derek Paravicini, he is a TED Speaker.[5]
Ockelford is the Founder and Trustee of The Amber Trust, a UK-wide charity that supports blind and partially sighted children and young people in their pursuit of music,[6] former Chair of Trustees of Soundabout, a UK-based charity that supports people of all ages with complex needs engage with music, and Founder and Chair of Sounds of Intent Charity. He also serves as Secretary and Trustee of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology research (SEMPRE), an international learned society that holds international conferences, supports research across the world through grants, particularly aimed at young researchers, and publishes three journals, The Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education and Music Science, as well as a series of books on music education and psychology published by Routledge.[7]
In early 2021, Ockelford was made a Freeman of the City of London, by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.[8]
Bibliography
- Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives, London: Routledge. 2005. .[9]
- In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini, London: Hutchinson. 2007. [10] [11]
- Music for children and Young People with Complex Needs. 2008. [12] [13]
- Music, Language, and Autism: Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds. 2013. [14]
- Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music, London: Profile Books. 2017.[15] [16]
Selected publications
- "The Sounds of Intent project: modeling musical development in children with learning difficulties". Emerald Insight.
- "Musical expectancy in atonal contexts: Musicians’ perception of “antistructure”. Psychology of Music.
- "Sounds of intent, phase 2: gauging the music development of children with complex needs". European Journal of Special Needs Education.
- "Exploring the structural principles underlying the capacity of groups of notes to function concurrently in music". Sage Journals.
- "Similarity relations between groups of notes: Music-theoretical and music-psychological perspectives". Sage Journals.
- "Zygonic Theory: Introduction, Scope, and Prospects". Society for Music theory.
- "A Music Module in Working Memory? Evidence from the Performance of a Prodigious Musical Savant". Sage Journals.
- "Exploring musical interaction between a teacher and pupil, and her evolving musicality, using a music-theoretical approach". Research Studies in Music Education.
- "Implication and expectation in music: a zygonic model". Psychology of Music.
- "Learning and creativity in a prodigious musical savant". International Congress series.
Notes and References
- Web site: Adam Ockelford . University of Roehampton Research Explorer . en.
- Margulis . Elizabeth Hellmuth . Neuroscience: How music meets mind . Nature . 351 . en . 10.1038/546351a . June 2017. 546 . 7658 . 2017Natur.546..351M . 205094386 . free .
- Web site: Early years musical framework and resources launch . Nursery World . en.
- Web site: The human iPod: Meet the musical savant . https://web.archive.org/web/20090530143447/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/the-human-ipod-meet-the-musical-savant-1691818.html . 2009-05-30 . limited . live . The Independent . en . 28 May 2009.
- Web site: Adam Ockelford. Ted.com. en.
- Web site: What this blind, autistic pianist can teach us about music education . i (newspaper) . 10 May 2018 . en.
- Web site: Society for Education and Music Psychology Research – People. Sempre.
- Web site: https://twitter.com/spectaclemakers/status/1350091358132969474.
- Volioti . Georgia . Book Review: Repetition in Music: Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives . Musicae Scientiae . 325–330 . en . 10.1177/102986490701100208 . 1 July 2007. 11 . 2 . 151902585 .
- Web site: Book Excerpt: In The Key of Genius . CBS News . 12 March 2010 . en.
- Web site: 'Hello, would you like to see my wart?' . The Daily Telegraph . 30 May 2007.
- Streeter . Elaine . Music for Children and Young People with Complex Needs by Adam Ockelford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp., paperback, £16.50. : 0193223015. . British Journal of Music Education . 208–209 . en . 10.1017/S0265051710000124 . 2010. 27 . 2 . 145553196 .
- Darrow . Alice-Ann . Book review: ADAM OCKELFORD, Music for Children and Young People with Complex Needs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv + 299 pp. ISBN 9780193223011 . Psychology of Music . 125–126 . 10.1177/0305735610351636 . January 2010. 38 . 145776808 .
- Web site: Book review: "Music, Language and Autism: Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds (Ockelford) – Reviewed by Alex Lubet . Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music.
- Web site: Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music . Opera News.
- Web site: Book Review: Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music, by Adam Ockelford . Glam Adelaide . en-AU . 31 July 2018.
