Meet Jasmine Ng, a recent YST graduate, who is no stranger to the community music scene.
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Meet Amanda Lee (B.Mus4) who hopes to continue being involved in the community of music and health.
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On 30 Mar 2023, YST in collaboration with NUS Giving held a fundraising launch for the Centre for Music and Health, sharing on music and health as well as community engagement work at YST.
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With 18 speakers and moderators, six musicians, 15 posters and demos presented, it was wonderful to see passionate conversations emerge between policy makers, academics, musicians and music educators, music therapists, students, and representatives from arts organisations and the music industry.
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Jason Lai, Principal Conductor of YST, forms a choir with 9 individuals living with dementia and their loved ones.
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People can build emotional resilience, cope with mental conditions and improve their mental health by producing and listening to music, said three speakers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Giving Experience Leadership Series session held on 20 April 2022. The session, titled ‘A Conversation on Emotional Resilience – Finding Emotional Well-Being Through Music’, explored the power of music to transform lives positively through an engaging discussion.
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Supporting health and well-being through music: the use of art as a means to improving health and well-being has been a rising trend, spanning various art forms including music. The Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music of the National University of Singapore established the Centre of Music and Health, in hopes of promoting mental well-being through music and conducting empirical research on healthy ageing. This is the first research institution of its kind in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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To further the use of music to improve lives in Singapore and the region, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YST) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is establishing a new Centre for Music and Health (CMH). CMH will be the first of its kind in Singapore and Southeast Asia to develop evidence-based music programmes to support health and well-being, as well as research methods to inform and evaluate the efficacy of such programmes.
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Hear from Asst Prof Dr Kat Agres on her research work in music for health and well-being, including a music-based brain-computer interface for emotion regulation.
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