Finding a Shared Identity: Music Therapists and Musicians Collaborating on a Hospital Ward

Abstract

Music therapists and musicians collaborating on a hospital ward. 
How can they find a shared identity as an ensemble to make live 
music for patients and staff on a cancer ward? 

We will take you on a research journey, where music therapists 
and musicians are finding themselves in a new setting and in a 
new collaboration. On their journey together they are reflecting on 
their different professional identities, negotiating the joint artistic 
approach and learning from each other in order to complete the 
task of making person-centred music for patients and staff.