Adam S. Eisenberg Director Hackney Music Development Trust
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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 has appeared on several panels on the subject of music education with OPERA America, has 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,
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 project Operaction Hackney: Learning Through the Arts, HMDT's production of On London Fields, creating HMDT's international touring project Hear Our Voice, and most recently Confucius Says, a new opera project for primary school students.
Sarah Godfrey, Manager
Kate Hodson, Projects Officer
A keen singer, Kate has been a member of many choirs including Zamar Gospel Choir, York Chamber Choir, as well as volunteering with the Hands and Voices choir for adults with learning disabilities.
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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.
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. 
Sarah graduated from the University of Liverpool with a B.A. Hons. in Popular Music/Music, undertaking a number of primary research projects focusing on Liverpool's diverse music scene. She went on to work for the Borough of Telford and Wrekin as a children's playscheme worker, before joining Serious International Music Producers in 2001as Audience Development Co-ordinator. At Serious, she worked with some of the world's most talented artists on projects such as the International London Jazz Festival, and The Song's The Thing Festival celebrating the art of songwriting and a pioneering national workshop tour led by saxophonist Courtney Pine, DJ Pogo and MC Sparkii. Sarah has also worked in a voluntary capacity at Disability Arts in Shropshire (DASh). 
Kate graduated from The University of York with a BA Music and MA in Community Music. During her time in York she led and organised a number of music projects throughout the city, undertaking roles such as Education Coordinator for the York Carnival and Music Director of York Voices Choir. Specialising mainly in singing and special needs projects, she worked as a practitioner and assistant with CreativeSound, Jessie’s Fund and YAMSEN (Yorkshire Association for Music and Special Educational Needs). Before joining HMDT, Kate joined the creative arts charity Create as Project Intern. At Create she organised and project managed two of their flagship projects, creative:space (music events for disabled children and their families) and Arts Adventures (creative workshops for children in hospital and hospices).