In 1995, Professor Adam Ockelford, together with a group of parents, friends
and supporters, set up The AMBER Trust in order to raise funds to build
the Soundscape Centre in partnership with the RNIB in Redhill, Surrey.

Professor Ockelford trained as a musician at the
Royal Academy in the 1970s before developing an
interest in music for children with special needs.
Since then, Adam has devoted much of his life
to teaching 'musical savants' - people with
exceptional musical abilities despite their
disabilities. Working with these young people
has led him to research how music makes sense
to everyone. He is now Professor of Music at
Roehampton University and continues to support
blind and partially sighted children and young
people in music-making.