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Boyce-Tilman, Professor June
Religion
June Boyce-Tilman, Professor of Applied
Music at King Alfred's College, Winchester read Music at St
Hugh's College, Oxford. She pioneered work in introducing
composing activities into the classroom and completed a PhD
at the Institute of Education entitled Towards a model of
the musical development of children. The results of this research
have been translated into Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese and
Polish and she has lectured, given papers and led workshops
in many parts of the world, including Australia, Hong Kong,
New Zealand and the US.
JUNE has a particular interest in
Music and Theology including Religious Education and regularly
writes and takes workshops linking these areas together. She
has done pioneering work in Interfaith dialogue, writing articles
and speaking on interfaith and intercultural links in Britain
and abroad. This has led to the establishment of the Field
of World Musics at King Alfred's College, Winchester.
She has written and spoken on women's
role in church music and music in general, encouraging the promotion
of music by women and holding workshops for women on composing.
Her research is into the medieval abbess, Hildegard of Bingen
(1098 - 1179) and she is founder of the Hildegard Network which
stretches over three continents and is concerned with bringing
together the areas of healing, the arts and theology.
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