OHMI joins the International Alliance of Accessible Music (IAAM)

The OHMI Trust has accepted an invitation to join the International Alliance of Accessible Music (IAAM).

IAAM was founded by The Music Man Project (UK) and AllegroModerato (Italy) with the objective of reversing perceptions of disability through music education and performance.
Membership of an alliance with a similarly international reach affords OHMI the opportunity to connect with an even greater number of accessible music education and performance providers around the world. We’re looking forward to sharing our passion for, and knowledge about, accessible music-making and to learning from the experiences of others.
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Founder member of IAAM and The Music Man project, David Stanley BEM, said: “While relatively rare, we know there are other organisations across the globe using music education and performance to change lives and reverse perceptions. Our new challenge is to find them all, to learn from them, to support them and to collaborate with them. One such organisation is OHMI whose incredible work in matching disabled musicians with adapted musical instruments and enabling equipment makes them a perfect fit for IAAM.”

Rachel Wolffsohn, General Manager of The OHMI Trust, said: “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to work with David whose former role as the UK Disability & Access Ambassador for Arts & Culture and whose decades of advocating for the rights of disabled people in music-making are a true inspiration to those in our sector. We’re very much looking forward to what we might achieve together.”