Jacinta founded Hummding Days on the experience that Group Excellence can be enhanced by working with the Arts In Performance.

She he is a Graduate of Trinity College of Music and Drama, and a Performing Licentiate of The Royal Academy of Music. A Prize-winning student, her Postgraduate Year extended her training in Performance Skills and Group work. Jacinta has worked with individuals, groups and audiences throughout her life, as a teacher, performer and group facilitator.

Her many years experience as a counsellor, coach and mentor has taken her to schools, music schools and community projects around the world involving young and old alike, including people with Learning Difficulties, and those copng with stress and illness.

She delights in sharing her background as a soloist, composer and member of duos, ensembles and orchestras to develop in others a sense of the vital role each individual can fulfil by contributing their unique skills in an outstanding team performance.

"no matter how great an individual you are, music teaches you that the creativity only works in groups and the expression of the group is very often larger than the sum of the parts"Daniel Barenboim: Reith Lectures 2006