Governance

The Executive Committee

The Executive Committee (EXCO), consisting of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, are voted into office every two years. EXCO may appoint General Members to take on specific tasks related to the association’s operations, advocacy, or professional education efforts. AMTS is governed by the association’s Constitution of Association for Music Therapy (Singapore). The Annual General Meeting is held annually in September.

Current Executive Committee

Tan Xueli, PhD, MT-BC

President

Dr. Tan is the Principal Music Therapist and Music Therapy Lead at the Rehabilitation Department at St. Luke’s Hospital. For close to 30 years, Dr. Tan worked as a music therapy clinician, researcher, author, editor, and faculty member in the United States and Norway. She was a Presidential Fellowship Scholar at the School of Music, University of Iowa (USA) from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, she received the President’s Commendation Award for her service to the American Music Therapy Association. An award-winning researcher, Dr. Tan’s areas of specialisation included medical music therapy, pain management, psychology of music, and cultural humility and responsiveness in clinical practice. Dr. Tan had published in both music therapy and medical journals, and previously served on the editorial boards of four music therapy scientific journals. Dr. Tan currently also serves on the Programme Advisory Board for the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).

Wang Feng, MMT, MT-BC

Vice-President

Wang Feng is currently in private practice. She worked as the Principal Music Therapist at St. Andrew’s Community Hospital up till 2022, and as adjunct lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) since 2006. She graduated with a Master of Music Therapy from Temple University (USA) in 2005. She earned her Bachelor degree for Music Therapy from Arizona State University (USA) and received her music therapy board certification in 2004. She has worked with a wide range of clients, including paediatrics, children with special needs, at-risk youth, adults and geriatrics with mental illness, intellectual disability, dementia, rehabilitation and palliative needs. She was the founding president of AMTS in 2007 and is happy to serve again with the current EXCO.

Portrait of Camellia Soon, AMTS Treasurer

Camellia Soon, RMT

Secretary

Camellia currently practises music therapy at Dover Park Hospice and also in private work with children with special needs. She holds a Master’s degree in Creative Music Therapy from Western Sydney University and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the National University of Singapore. She was also prior working in the Institute of Mental Health for more than 5 years in vocational rehabilitation.

Camellia’s work also extends to the publication of two research papers and a commentary in Channel News Asia (2021). Her interest is to see patients and families recover or develop their sense of self through music.

Jolene is a Music Therapist with the Psychosocial Service Department at Ren Ci Hospital and holds credentials as a Registered Music Therapist (RMT), Neurological Music Therapist (NMT) and certified Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC) assessor. Since her Music Therapy training in Australia, she has been using an eclectic approach to support elders in long-term care, palliative and community hospital settings to address goals including relationship completion, grief and loss, self-expression and more. Jolene has also introduced music therapy services for long-term residents living with terminal illnesses and disorders of consciousness and their families. She adopts a resource-oriented approach in her clinical work, recognising the potential in every person and the importance of journeying alongside others, supporting and holding space with music.

AMTS Documents

Professional members practising in Singapore meet Professional Competency standards laid out by AMTS and abide by the provisions of the association’s Code of Ethics and Professional Standards. AMTS members are obliged to abide by the professional ethical code of their country of training and that of AMTS. The objective of ensuring professional members’ competencies and adherence to code of ethics is to safeguard the best interests of the patients, clients, and recipients of music therapy services, the public, the profession and its members.