![]() ![]() ![]() We are therefore asking our readers to consider offering financial support to these efforts. Our financial resources are limited and the local media environment is intensely competitive so there is a constraint on what we can do. However, the readership that these stories generates is often below that needed to cover the cost of producing them. We've always done that and won't be changing, in fact we'd like to do more. We aim to feature as much as possible on local societies, charities based in the area, fundraising efforts by residents, community-based initiatives and even helping people find missing pets. This site remains committed to providing local community news and public interest journalism.Īrticles such as the one above are integral to what we do. Like Reading Articles Like This? Help Us Produce More He is also the Secretary of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research ('SEMPRE') and Chair of Soundabout, an Oxfordshire-based charity that supports music provision for children and young people with complex needs. He has worked with young people who are blind or partially sighted for over the last 40 years, at Linden Lodge School in Wandsworth and the RNIB. ![]() Outside of academia, he is the chair of trustees for the Amber Trust, a UK charity that supports blind and partially sighted children in their pursuit of music, which he founded in 1994. A trained musician at the Royal Academy of Music, he specialises in research focusing music psychology, education, theory and aesthetics, particularly with children with special music abilities or needs and on the autism spectrum. My intention was to create a telling double portrait through a complex composition, evoking the musicality and rhythms synonymous with the world of the two sitters - hopefully achieving an archetypal and timeless quality.”Īdam Ockelford has been a Professor of Music at the University since 2007. Saied Dai, the artist for the painting, said, “The challenge of this portrait commission has been to encapsulate the nearly forty-year mentoring relationship between the musician Derek Paravicini and Professor Adam Ockelford. I have known Derek since he was just two years old and officially started working with him when he was five and I hope the painting inspires young children with special needs that they too can pursue their own aspirations or dreams successfully, just like Derek has.” The characteristic sound of Derek's piano is crystallised in the magical symmetries of the painting. In addition, Adam and Derek have spoken together on a number of occasions and events about Derek’s unique relationship with music including the TedxWarwick video “In the key of genius” in 2013.Īdam Ockelford, Professor of Music and Director of the Applied Music Research Centre at the University of Roehampton, said, “Derek and I are thrilled to have our special relationship captured in such an intimate portrait by leading artist Saied Dai. Derek debuted as a concert pianist at the age of 10 performing at the Barbican with the Royal Philharmonic Pops in 1989 and has since then taken the classical music world by storm.Īdam and Derek’s long-standing and ongoing mentoring relationship flourished with Adam’s role as the author of the official biography “In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini”, published in 2008. Derek, who holds an honorary doctorate from the University in recognition of his extraordinary musical accomplishment, is able to play almost any piece of music after hearing it only once, despite being blind and an autistic savant. The portrait, commissioned by German-British information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley CH, celebrates the long-standing mentoring relationship between Adam and Derek, which first began in 1982 when Derek was just two years old. Painted by Saied Dai, the portrait was unveiled on, Thursday, 5 May at a private event at the Mall Galleries in London. The University of Roehampton has unveiled a double portrait celebrating the remarkable forty-year musical partnership between Prof Adam Ockelford, Professor of Music at the University of Roehampton, and musical prodigy Derek Paravicini. Roehampton Romance Fraud Expert Helps Launch Campaign Staff at University of Roehampton Vote for Strike ActionĬampaign Launched Against University of Roehampton Cuts University of Roehampton Staff Strike for Three Days New Head of Digby Stuart College Appointed More Strikes Ahead at the University of Roehampton Women's Rights Advocates Given Key Roles at University of Roehampton ![]() Union Pledges To Fight Job Losses at University of Roehampton ![]()
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