Musical Between - Inclusive Music & Art Centre

24/12/2025

21/12/2025

From our community band’s Christmas concert at an aged care centre on 14 December. We loved sharing the Christmas spirit with the residents🎄🎶

18/12/2025

We had our end-of-year staff celebration at a cozy local bistro tonight 🎉�So much fun chatting endlessly!😆 I’m so lucky to have such lovely people working as therapists and staff at Musical Between. Thank you for all your genuine work this year and I’m looking forward to working together in the year ahead. - “Musical Between power!✊”

27/11/2025

It was such a delightful time at our Community Concert last Sunday! Many inspiring performances, happy faces, and warmth filled in the church hall✨The concert environment really encourages everyone to be brave, confident, and to flourish!🌸It truly was music therapy in the community. Our collaborative art-making was fun as well🎨Thank you to our wonderful team, volunteers, brilliant performers, and all the families, friends, and staff. We are so lucky to have you all!!
More photos and videos are coming soon — stay tuned!💜🎶

17/11/2025

🎉 Our Community Concert is back! 🎉✨
We had to miss it last year due to our big move - but now we’re returning!
Join us for an afternoon celebrating diversity, creativity, and togetherness! Enjoy inspiring performances by our music therapy clients, our community program participants, fun audience participation, and an art & music collaboration! 🎶🎨✨

🗓 Sunday 23rd Nov | 2:30pm–5:30pm
📍 St Peter’s Anglican Church, Hornsby (207 Peats Ferry Rd — car park behind the church or street parking available)
💜 Free entry for audience — bring friends and family!

17/11/2025

From the last Community Band session🎶

16/11/2025

I reconnected with my old prac student, Edmund Ma, from 14 years ago at the last AMTA Conference — he came from Hong Kong to present! After the conference, he visited Musical Between and joined Luke’s session, which he had also attended as a prac student 14 years ago. Both Luke and Edmund are great drummers, and it turned into such a fun session! 🥁🥁

16/11/2025

At the 50th Anniversary Australian Music Therapy Conference, I was invited to join the Scientific Review Committee. It was my first time reviewing presentation abstracts, and I learned how the review process works. I can now see both the reviewers’ and applicants’ points of view more clearly. I also enjoyed reading many wonderful abstracts I reviewed.
Thank you for this opportunity, Australian Music Therapy Association.

17/10/2025

Huge thank you to the Australian Music Therapy Association conference committee for the wonderful 50th anniversary conference in Melbourne and for inviting me to be part of the Practice Wisdom panel. It was such a precious experience, and I was deeply honoured to share the panel with Australia’s iconic music therapists with kind hearts and deep wisdom — Dr Denise Grocke, Dr Clare O’Callaghan, and Catherine Threlfall.

I was also so glad to introduce the unforgettable and inspiring work of our beloved late mentor, Robin Howat, founder of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy course in Australia. His spirit and music continue to live on in all of us.

02/10/2025

🌟 We’re excited to launch two new community programs – “Singing Circle” and “Sign Choir”! 🎶
Come join us in making music and connection.
📩 For more details, contact us at info@musicalbetween.com

29/09/2025

I’m honoured to have been invited as one of the panelists for a spotlight panel at the upcoming Australian Music Therapy Association 50th anniversary conference this month! The topic is ‘Practice Wisdom in Music Therapy’, moderated by Dr. Denise Grocke, a legendary pioneer of music therapy in Australia. I hope my experience for 20 years in Australia (+5 years in Japan) exploring the theory and practice of music therapy will add a unique perspective to the discussion. I’ve given many conference presentations before, but this will be my first time on a panel. I’m honestly a bit nervous, but will just be myself and enjoy celebrating this milestone in our profession! 🎉✨

15/09/2025

Yesterday, our Community Band was invited to an aged care facility to give a concert. We prepared a program mainly with familiar songs for the residents, mixed with instrumental pieces and two Japanese songs. We received feedback that they were delighted to hear the songs they knew, as it brought back old memories. At the concert, they began humming along, playing percussion instruments, and even blowing bubbles during the song, “I’m forever blowing bubbles”. It was a warm and special time of music together🥰 Music is wonderful✨