about wah
Wild At Heart supports artists who experience injustice and exclusion through visible and invisible disability to create original music which challenges artistic expectations and leads change for access and equity in music culture, industry and society.
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Music Training Manager
We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated individual to join our team as a Music Training Manager. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape and lead inclusive music training programs, providing a platform for artists of all abilities to explore and develop their musical talents and engage with music culture and industry. Download PD here.
Wild At Heart is a vibrant creative community of songwriters, singers, musicians, performers, bands, hip hop crews, film makers, dancers, event makers, project managers, volunteers, staff and directors.
Wild At Heart is committed to being an organisation led by artists and other contributors with lived experience of disability. Artists and others with lived experience are Board members, leaders, staff members, tutors, program managers, participating artists, volunteers, interview panel members and more. All those engaged in Wild At Heart are invited to contribute to the governance, management and creative direction of the organisation.
Wild At Heart is built on welcome and access. Firstly by creating friendship, trust and intimacy amongst people who commonly experience being loneliness and stigma. Wild At Heart creates a space where it’s safe to share, to be creative and to share their life experiences and learn the skills to shape these into beautiful, powerful songs.
Wild At Heart helps to break down barriers to arts making for people with disability by ensuring they are in charge of the process in setting their goals, influencing the shape of programs and leading the organisation’s direction. WAH carefully selects and trains a cohort of professional artists to mentor artists, ensuring authentic and self determined music making.
We know from our own impact measurement and the extensive body of international research that music making in itself, and even more so as part of a community, is hugely positive for mental well being, friendship and belonging, physical health, economic and cultural quality and representation.
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Wild At Heart is a not-for-profit Australian Company. We are governed by a Board of Directors and guided by an Advisory Group made up of the artists we work with. Our team of project managers and artists run and deliver our artistic programs.
meet the team
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Phil Heuzenroeder
ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Phil is our conductor, leading the vision and making sure everyone’s got a part in it. His passion is to tap into and elicit that powerful human capacity to make stuff up, to be original, make music, make dance and tell stories in order to bridge the immutable boundary between one human and another.
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Domini Forster
FINANCE MANAGER
Domini has a long-standing connection with Wild At Heart, having managed the Songwriting program from 2018-2020 before moving to the role of Finance Manager. Domini is also a recording and performing artist in her own right, currently touring nationally to showcase her collaboration project with renowned Australian songwriter Lior.
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Tamara Issa
PROGRAM MANAGER
Tamara is deeply passionate about music and dedicated to social advocacy. Her experience as a disability and mental health support worker has given her insight into the changes needed within society. As our hip hop Program Manager, she combines her love for music with community outreach, striving towards equity for all artists. Tamara is also a singer-songwriter and musician in the Australian band Obscura Hail.
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Matthew Ford
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Matthew is a musician and record label manager based in Naarm / Melbourne, Victoria. Matthew's work in the arts has seen many roles, including record label manager, booking agent, international touring artist, recording and performing artist, and community radio volunteer and programmer.
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Laura Hudson
PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
Laura administers our music programs, wrangling the documentation and numbers to make sure everything’s ticking along nicely. She is a songwriter who uses her classical voice and theatre backgrounds to strengthen her storytelling. Laura is a neurodivergent person who draws on her empathy for people who also experience mental illness and disability in her work.
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