Adam S. Eisenberg General Director HMDT Music Email links Before you contact us 18.12.2013
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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 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 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.
Rebecca Redfern, Music Manager
Prior to joining HMDT Music, Rebecca was the Community and Education Officer for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where she ran the very active primary schools programme, SEN programme and the Advanced Musicianship strand which included the RPO resound Summer School. She has also worked as Teaching Assistant, Project Leader and Creative Composition Coach at Christ Church Primary School. Rebecca grew up in the youth orchestra set up, being a member of the local Bristol Schools Philharmonic Orchestra on the oboe and as a member of IAPS and NSSO Symphony Orchestras as first Harp. Whilst at school, she toured Europe with Clifton College Chamber Choir and The Madrigal Group as well as doing a season with the Opera Project as one of their 'spirits' in the Magic Flute. Rebecca continues to work as a musician, accompanying chamber choirs such as English Chamber Choir, and as a private singing and harp tutor.
Helen Kelly, Projects Assistant
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Patrons Trustees TONY CLARK TINA JONES JACQUELINE KIRSH
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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. 
Rebecca holds a BMus (hons) from Cardiff University from where she graduated in 2006 after winning the Sir Geraint Evans prize for singing. She also holds a PGDip in Arts Management and an MA in Cultural Policy and Management from City University, London.