Inclusive Practitioner Intensive Weekend

Seah Hotson

Seah is a facilitator and sound designer with a focus on inclusive music practice and music for wellbeing. She has experience working with vulnerable young people, facilitating music groups and one to ones. Seah has designed and delivered The Creative Empowerment Project; exploring feminism and challenges facing female, trans and non-binary young people through music, dance and drama. She delivers music intervention for young people in Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) settings. 

From working with young people with Educational Health Care Plans (EHCP), she is experienced at working in ways to suit each individual within a session, helping them to develop musical skills, build confidence, autonomy and increase wellbeing. 

Kathryn Sturman

Kathryn is a music leader, singer and charity director based in Leeds. She works with all ages of babies, children and young people in formal and non-formal settings through the charity that she co-founded, Made with Music. 

The charity focuses on inclusive music practice and wellbeing, with regular work for the NHS and carer support groups, self-promoted family friendly gigs, inclusive and accessible music classes and family singing events. 

Ben Sellers

Ben is a teacher, trainer and writer. His work is focussed on future technologies and improving access to high-quality creative opportunities for disabled young people and those with additional learning needs. 

He works with music hubs, orchestras and arts organisations worldwide to embed inclusive practice and champion innovation. 

Alex Lupo

Alex has over twenty years of experience as a music leader, performer, composer and producer. As a music leader he has devised and led a huge range of projects from large scale ensemble projects to staff training and curriculum development in a range of settings working with young disabled people. Alex specialises in working with Assistive Music Technology with young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties. He has worked for a number of leading organisations, including Live Music Now! Drake Music, Open Up Music, Bristol Beacon, Wiltshire Music Connect, Bath Philharmonia, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Bath Festivals Trust among others.  

Alex is also a HCPC registered music therapist. His work as a music therapist is also focussed in SEN/D, ALN and SEMH settings working with young autistic people and young people with complex needs.  

His varied performing career has taken him all over the world, both with bands and in theatre productions. 

Lu Bristow

Lu is a vocal tutor and music leader with seventeen years of experience in performance and education. She has set up several vocal teaching programs throughout the South of England, promoting singing at all levels and through formal and informal education settings. 

She specialises in facilitating singing and creative music sessions with young people in challenging circumstances, including within the care system, with disabled people and with people facing mental health challenges. She has developed the Trinity Certificate for Music Educators with a specialism in inclusive practice. Lu is a creative producer, designing and managing national award-winning music projects and events with vulnerable young people, and Bristol’s refugee and asylum seeker communities. 

Lu has worked as a tutor from beginner to degree level for a number of organisations including BIMM Bristol and BME London and has coached professional artists and worked in artist development for Sennheiser. 

Lu’s singing career has included work with Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Wonder, Pixie Lott and Tom Odell, and performance at the Olympic Ceremony and in sessions for the BBC and ITV.