Date: 15th July 2024
Ep 19
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
