• Grenville Hancox on a life and career of singing for health in research and practice

  • Oct 4 2024
  • Length: 48 mins
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Grenville Hancox on a life and career of singing for health in research and practice

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  • Grenville Hancox MBE is a musician, teacher, performer and conductor who has been at the forefront of initiating and researching music and health activities throughout his career. In 2003 he was a co-founder of the Sidney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health and later in 2012 founded the charity Canterbury Cantata Trust which developed a collection of singing groups including Sing to Beat Parkinson's, all demonstrating the principle of caring through singing. Grenville was awarded an MBE for services to Music in 2005.

    Grenville shares his story of growing up with music at home and at school and how he recognised its therapeutic benefits from an early age, through to leading on formal research on arts and health, and his continuing singing for health groups where he lives in Folkestone.

    Links:

    Sounds Folkestone

    Sing To Beat

    Canterbury Cantata Trust

    Sidney de Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health

    Socials:

    Grenville on LinkedIn

    Creative Health Stories on Instagram

    Laura on LinkedIn


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