Freelance music practitioner, East London NHS Foundation Trust; England

Leanne Sedin is a freelance music practitioner specialising in group singing and collaborative composition. She has partnered with ELFT since 2018, developing the ELFTin1Voice choir project with staff and service users. She directed their TEDxNHS performance at London’s IndigO2 in 2019, and led reflective songwriting workshops online during lockdown in 2020/21. Leanne founded and runs Sing Tower Hamlets community choir, has worked with London Contemporary Voices and the English National Opera’s youth outreach programme, and runs music workshops in schools and community settings around the UK. In 2020 she co-wrote Isolation, In Your Words, a musical documentary for BBC Arts, which premiered on BBC Radio 3. www.leannesedin.com