Research - Canterbury Cantata Trust

RESEARCH

Collaborative Research into the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Singing

Over a decade of collaborative research by our Founder led to the Trust being set up to act as an umbrella organisation to make opportunities for caring through singing, based on our belief that singing is good for you.

Choral singing and psychological wellbeing: Quantitative and qualitative findings from English choirs in a cross-national survey.

Grenville’s research was undertaken in partnership with the Sidney De Haan Centre for Arts and Health, and the Trust continues to drive ground-breaking research into the beneficial effects of singing on health, with a particular focus on sufferers of dementia and Parkinson’s disease.

Over 600 choral singers drawn from English choirs completed the WHOQOLBREF questionnaire to measure physical, psychological, social and environmental wellbeing, and a twelve-item ‘wellbeing and choral singing scale’.

Singing Hospitals - Interview with Singing Researcher Prof. Grenville Hancox Part 1

What do Singers Say About the Effects of Choral Singing on Physical Health? Findings from a Survey of Choristers in Australia, England and Germany

This paper presents evidence on choral singers’ perceptions of the physical health benefits of choral singing.

International study on Singing and Parkinson’s published

A groundbreaking new international study on Singing and Parkinson’s has found that group singing enhances quality of life and mental health in older people. This paper explored whether there are differences in the effects of group singing intervention on people with Parkinson’s (PwPs) in Australia, UK and South Korea.

Grenville Hancox, Artistic Director and Founder of Sing to Beat Parkinson’s and Trish Vella-Burrows, Director of Research were both co-authors of this paper.