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Tony Wigram: Professor of Music Therapy
Risenga Makondo: African musician
Martin Read: Music lecturer and composer
Louise Neale and Cathy Rowland
Hampshire MusicSpace Music Therapists.

Hampshire MusicSpace Annual Conferences are of interest to those wishing to find out more about music therapy, either as a potential career, on behalf of potential clients, or as CPD for practising therapists.
This year's theme: Improvisation will also be of interest to those who are using music-making in any field of disability.
It will be a mainly practical day this year, looking at improvisation from several different perspectives with the guidance of: a composer, an African musician and from the experiences of 3 practising music therapists.

The aim of the day is to freshly inspire us in our improvisation. So come prepared to experience a highly practical day!

Tony Wigram is Professor of Music Therapy and Head of PhD Studies in Music Therapy in the Department for Communication and Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Aalborg, Denmark. He is Head Music Therapist at the Harper House Children's Service, Hertfordshire, UK, Research Advisor to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust, Prinicipal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music, Melbourne University, and Reader in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.Tony is a music therapist whose expertise is of international reputation, and we are thrilled to have him with us in Hampshire on this occasion. His presentation will have a largely practical content and will provide practice tools for the participants that are intended to sustain the creativity of improvisation while adding some clear structure and method to its clinical application.
Examples of his work on film will be included, and signed copies of his book ‘Improvisation’

Risenga is a South African musician and dancer who has performed worldwide with a number of different groups including Amampondo and Alan Skidmore’s Ubizo. He has worked for WOMAD in the UK, Spain and Australia. He is has run workshops for many years for teachers, music therapists, artists and a wide range of young people, including those with special needs. He works in schools, healthcare, with community groups and business. He is himself a qualified music therapist.
Other Training services Risenga provides are Teachers INSET, specialised workshops for gifted and talented pupils, using African music in music therapy, and African dance.

.....was born in Birmingham, studying music at Colchester Institute and Goldsmiths College, London University, where he completed his M.Mus. in composition. In 1988 he was admitted as a Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London and from 1996-2002 was an SPMN shortlisted composer. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles and choirs, and has been featured at many festivals - including Spitalfields, Southern Cathedrals, Corsham, Malvern, Farnham, Bath and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. It has also been performed throughout the USA and Europe - most recently The Christmas Life [words: Wendy Cope] was broadcast in Norway.
In 2007 Martin's opera [with libretto by Philip Sealey] – a commission from Opera Minima, was premiered and toured the East Midlands and Southern England. He is currently researching a community project. Martin is Head of Music at Alton College, Hampshire, and also runs composition workshops throughout Hampshire and beyond. His music is published by Banks,Èditions À Coeur Joie, and Music Press.