Sound Resource was established in 2012 to support wellbeing through singing and music.
We believe that music helps us to be happy and engaged. Singing has been shown to bring many benefits to health and to enable wellbeing. It helps people deal with feelings of isolation and loneliness and to connect with others.
Through our singing groups and concerts we have helped many people struggling with conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, breathing difficulties, and dementia.
Moving Music is now our main activity. These concerts, combining performances and sing-along songs led by specialist professional musicians, help those who face the challenges of cognitive decline, or other frailties, alongside those who care for and about them. The range of music - including classical, folk, jazz, showtime, and popular songs - is selected for the enjoyment of different age groups, backgrounds and interests. Both cared-for and carers report that they have a wonderful time with us.
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The Moving Music Team
Photo: Danielle Battigelli, Moving Music Coordinator, with volunteer concert stewards James, Lynda, Jo and Anna.
Danielle Battigelli
Moving Music Coordinator
Danielle has been involved with Moving Music since its start in 2007 in Oxford. Contact her with any questions about Moving Music, feedback, music and song suggestions, and any complementary events and activities to share with Moving Music audiences: movingmusicconcerts@gmail.com.
Photo by Emily Jarrett
VOLUNTEERS
Moving Music is fortunate to have the support of volunteer concert stewards with lived experience of caring roles and of living or working with people with dementia and their families. If you are interested to volunteer please contact Danielle on movingmusicconcerts@gmail.com
“It’s caring … Just by giving that cup of coffee and looking them in the eye and saying ‘it’s so lovely to have you here’. And meaning it, you know?”
Hannah Davey
Lead Musician
Hannah is a versatile singer who loves sharing music that connects, uplifts and brings people together. She gives concerts in community, care and concert settings, creating warm, engaging musical experiences for a wide range of audiences, including many people living with dementia.
Alongside this work, Hannah performs across the UK and Europe in a wide range of styles, from classical to jazz. She regularly appears as a soloist in concerts and recitals, with highlights including performances at Wigmore Hall with Orchestra of St John’s, and collaborations with groups such as iFagiolini and Manchester Baroque. She has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and given recitals across Europe.
Hannah enjoys a varied musical life. She performs chamber music with the Isbourne Trio, an ensemble with a particular focus on music by women composers, and is equally at home singing jazz. She is the vocalist with the Derek Paravicini Quartet and regularly performs at jazz clubs around the UK.
Alongside performing, Hannah is passionate about making music accessible to everyone. She works with charities including Sound Resource’s Moving Music concerts, Orchestra of St John’s Music for Autism, and La Folia. She also leads workshops and concerts for people of all ages and abilities.
Hannah studied at Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with first-class honours and winning prizes for her operatic work.
Trustees
Paul Cann
Paul has led a range of voluntary organisations for almost 30 years, first heading charities for children and young people with disabilities, and then for the last 25 years charities promoting the interests of older people.
In 2011 he co-founded the Campaign to End Loneliness. He is a charter member of the charity Independent Age and an Associate of the International Longevity Centre. In 2016 he was invited by the Australian Association of Gerontology to be their International Visiting Fellow. He has promoted the role of creative arts in later life, and this included the commissioning of a pioneering choral work ‘The Voyage’ on the theme of journeying through life and loneliness, bringing younger and older people together to make music.
He was Chair of the community arts enterprise Entelechy Arts, and the Rodolfus Foundation, which inspires and trains enthusiastic singers from 8 upwards into young adulthood. A keen interest of his is the impact of participation in creative arts on health, wellbeing and loneliness. He was appointed OBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2020.
Chair
Peter Hunt
Peter had a thirty six year career in music education before retiring in 2015 and is now a community musician. After a music degree at Dartington College of Arts and teaching in London for seven years he returned to Oxfordshire. His last secondary school post was Head of Performing Arts at Chipping Norton School where he helped it gain Performing Arts Status for the community, reflecting his belief that the arts are fundamental for a holistic education. Peter is a keen singer and started conducting and training choirs as a student, forming a youth choir in Oxford and eventually becoming Head of Voice for Berkshire Maestros, the leading provider of music education for young people. He played a significant role as Deputy Head, co-developing Pantomimus, a pioneering music programme for the under fives.
In 2001 Peter created Voiceworks – a singing handbook – published by Oxford University Press – which has gained a national reputation. As series editor, and an accomplished choral leader, he regularly delivers training for conductors and teachers across the UK and has presented at conferences in Europe, USA and Canada. In 2016 he started an adult Singing for Wellbeing group through the NHS Social Prescribing Scheme. His ambition is for Sound Resource to support more opportunities for communities to sing, and to promote the campaign for the arts as an essential part of health and wellbeing provision in the UK.
Trustee
Richard has spent most of his working life in the manufacturing industry in the UK. Apprenticed as a Mechanical Engineer, he had spells in various manufacturing operations as a Toolmaker, eventually working for Moss Plastic Parts Ltd, a division of Bunzl plc based in Banbury. After 15 years experience on the manufacturing side he progressed into a sales environment where he was asked to head up a new division producing promotional products into the advertising and incentives marketplace. In 2003 he facilitated a management buy out of the business from the parent company and over the next 12 years built a successful, profitable manufacturing business employing almost 50 staff and in doing so became the leading UK manufacturer and supplier of plastic promotional products, including 25% into Europe. In 2015 he engineered a sale of the business to a large investment capital business in conjunction with a competitive supplier and 12 months later in 2016 retired. He is married with 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren and enjoys, gardening, photography, sport and travel.
Treasurer
Richard Wood
Lynda Ware
Lynda studied medicine at Cambridge University and Westminster Medical School in London. She was a GP in rural Oxfordshire for thirty-one years and then Senior Fellow in General Practice with Cochrane UK for seven years until full retirement in 2022. She joined Moving Music as a volunteer after meeting one of their helpers at a coffee concert in the Holywell Music Room. Music has always been an important part of her life and helping out at Moving Music concerts continues to be a huge privilege and pleasure.
Trustee