Ann Lehmann-Kuit is an experienced Nordoff Robbins music therapist, lecturer, guitar teacher, performer and community event organiser. She is passionate about giving people of all ages opportunities to ignite their expressive confidence.  Ann lectures at Western Sydney University in the MCMT program and lectures in the undergraduate music degree at UOW.  

Ann is senior music therapist at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music where she also teaches Classical Guitar. Ann coordinates Jam n Bread, an intergenerational series of free musical community gatherings featuring musicians from different cultural backgrounds, runs Folk School at the Illawarra Folk Festival and is artistic director of KidsFest Shellharbour, a free weeklong festival for children, their families and carers. 

She is currently completing an arts-based Master of Research exploring neurodiversity, song creation, expressive confidence and mental health – which is the topic of our conversation today.