June Boyce-Tillman MBE read music at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She taught for twenty-five years in London schools and then in higher education. She has published widely on music, with several books on spirituality and music as well as music education. Her doctoral research into children’s musical development has been translated into five languages. She lectures internationally, recently in Nepal, the US and South Africa. She is concerned with dialogue through music and radical musical inclusion, composing large-scale works for cathedrals such as Winchester and Southwark involving professional musicians, community choirs, children with disabilities and school children. She founded the Centre for the Arts as Wellbeing and the Tavener Centre for Music and Spirituality. She is an Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She is an Anglican priest and an honorary chaplain at Winchester Cathedral.