About us

Adam S. Eisenberg Director
Tertia Sefton-Green Creative Director
Melissa Mills Projects Manager
Alexander French Projects Assistant Internship

Hackney Music Development Trust
Technology Learning Centre
1, Reading Lane
London E8 1GQ

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020 8820 7410
Fax
020 8820 7118

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Adam S. Eisenberg, Director

A native of New York City, Adam holds a B.A. degree in East Asian Studies and Politics and an M.A. in Social Studies Education and Cultural Studies from New York University. He began his career as an educator, teaching Secondary School students in History and Social Studies. He then moved into the entertainment field in 1989, and worked as a talent agent in Los Angeles, booking a variety of international musical talent, from pop and rock-and-roll to jazz and world beat music.

As Director of Education and Outreach for San Diego Opera (1994 – 98), Adam was responsible for the San Diego Opera Ensemble and Operation:Opera, the largest opera education programme of its kind in the United States.

Prior to his appointment at HMDT in 1999, Adam served as a Manager in the Orchestral Touring Department at IMG Artists (London), where he was responsible for the booking of tours for a number of UK and foreign orchestras in Europe, the United States and the Far East.

An avid fan of all forms of music, he has hosted panel discussions and outdoor concerts with featured artists and continues to give presentations on opera and the music business. He was a tutor for the Rose Bruford College distance learning degree in Opera Studies, has appeared on several panels on the subject of music education with OPERA America, served as a grants advisor and reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and continues to act as an advisor for grant giving organizations in the UK.

Tertia Sefton-Green, Creative Director

Tertia holds a B.A. Hons. and M.A. Hons. in English from Selwyn College, Cambridge and studied singing at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Royal Northern College of Music. After leaving Glyndebourne Chorus, her singing career included roles with opera companies in the UK and abroad, a range of concert work and, extensive outreach work. In 1997, she won a Churchill Fellowship to research Opera Education in the United States, and has written teachers' packs for Royal Opera House, English National Opera, English Touring Opera and San Diego Opera, and worked as Tutor, and Attachments and Residential School Co-ordinator on Rose Bruford College's Opera Degree Course.

Tertia was Executive Producer for the Covent Garden Festival's Creation Day 2000, and the following year, she set up and ran the prolific Education Department at the Handel House Museum where work included a young artists' performance programme, devisary school projects, participatory family events, adult workshops and an after schools' programme.

Her work as Project Director for HMDT includes the highly acclaimed primary school opera projects I Can Sing! The Hackney Chronicles, and The World Was All Before Them, and the RPS Award winning projects Operaction Hackney: Learning Through the Arts, HMDT's production of On London Fields, Confucius Says, and creating HMDT's international touring project Hear Our Voice.

Melissa Mills, Projects Manager

Zimbabwean flautist Missy Mills graduated from the University of Cape Town with a First Class BMus in 2006, and holds an MMus degree from Trinity College of Music. During her time in Cape Town, she played with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and performed in numerous concerts, winning the W.H Bell Award for Outstanding Wind Soloist and the UCT Concerto Competition.

In 2007, Missy was invited to study privately with esteemed flautist Raffaele Trevisani in Milan, Italy, and was awarded a full Beit Scholarship to study a Masters degree in music at Trinity College of Music with Lebanese flautist Wissam Boustany. At Trinity College, she researched and developed a unique music teaching method for her dissertation, which received a first and has been used in subsequent lectures at the college.

Missy is a founding member of the contemporary flute octet Ayre; which has performed at prestigious venues such as the British Flute Society Convention in 2008 and 2010, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Royal Festival Hall. She joined HMDT in June 2010 as Projects Assistant, later served as Projects Officer, and became Projects Manager in June 2011.

Patrons
NATALIE CLEIN
JULIAN JOSEPH

Trustees
PATRICK MADDAMS Hons Friba
CHAIR
Patrick Maddams was appointed Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 2005. He joined from Beachcroft Wansbroughs, where he was Partnership Secretary. Patrick was previously Managing Director of the Royal Academy of Music and, before that, at Dunlop Textiles Ltd. His early career was with Standard Chartered Bank and the Ocean Shipping group. He has been a lay Board member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is qualified to validate University Faculties of Architecture. He has served on several RIBA working groups and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2007.

FARQUHAR MCKAY
VICE CHAIR
Farquhar McKay currently works as the strategic coordinator for 14-19 learning in Lambeth with the responsibility of working with schools, and local college and voluntary sector providers on planning and curricular development. Previously he managed the Adult Learning programmes in Hackney, developing his skills in negotiating contracts within strict public sector financial constraints. He has held a range of responsibilities in education and regeneration management as an English and careers teacher, Education Business Partnership manager and Regeneration officer.

MICHAEL HELSTON
Michael Helston graduated in 1977 from Warwick University with a first class Honours Degree in Art History and Italian, and subsequently studied for a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. After a decade as a curator at the National Gallery Michael joined the home civil service and since 1995 has been at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. As head of the International Unit he oversees EU issues for the Department and leads on matters concerning broader international organisations, such as UNESCO.

TONY CLARK
Tony Clark has over 40 years in the music business having started his career as a sound engineer at Abbey Road Studios and progressing to Senior Engineer and Producer. He has worked alongside artists such as The Beatles, Yehudi Menuhin and Stevie Wonder. He later joined the innovative British Record Industry Trust School for the Performing Arts and taught and projected manage all the technical areas (theatre space, recording studios, video studios and radio studios) as well as supporting the students as Executive Producer in yearly shows and recording projects.

STEFAN WAGNER
As Managing Director of EMEA Head for Retail Structured Products at Citigroup Global Markets, Stefan has overall responsibility for retail structured products business across all asset classes including Product Development, Securitization, Marketing, Sales, Warrant & Certificate Trading. As Global Head of Structuring and Product Strategy until 2008, he was responsible for the development of retail and high net worth investment products and developed a graphical tool allowing distributors and investors to analyse and understand the behaviour of structured products on a stand alone or a portfolio basis as of today or in the future.

FIONA CUTHBERTSON
Fiona spent 4 and a half years in the House of Commons working for Laurence Robertson MP. She then created and ran an award winning political consultancy system called DeHavilland Engage for Emap in order to help politicians engage with businesses and charities on the issues that were pertinent at the time. Following this Fiona has spent many years in business including as head of product management for a web hosting company. Fiona now runs her own business - Keystone Consulting - providing political intelligence to training to organisations for a range of charities, businesses and non for profit organisations.

TINA JONES
Tina Jones has a background in Music Publishing working as an Editor for Peters Edition for several years. She is currently a freelance editor of classical, contemporary and educational music working with a range of composers both in the UK and internationally.