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Tania Balil: Soothing Life's Challenges With Music

Story: Raimy-Rose Lewis | Photo: slapics
Published On : May 28, 2019
TANIA BALIL: Soothing life
TANIA BALIL has dedicated her life to the arts and to helping heal people's souls with music, while also gracing Australians with live performances like no one else.

Tania has just released her third album, entitled Cucurrucucú Paloma, showcasing music from her time in Australia. She is continuing to help others while still performing with her brilliant live music. Stepping onto a stage means that the music is only created as soon as the musicians breathe together, and if the audience breathes and moves together with the performers, then the energy is absolutely magical, said Tania.

Tania first trained as a pianist at the Conservatorium of Music in Barcelona and then spent 20 years honing her skills as a musician. However she always had a deep passion for helping others. I had always found an inclination towards supporting people in the community who were going through hard times, and this aspect of my life had shaped my understanding of human suffering and distress. But Tania didn't fully realise the potential these two passions held, together, until tragedy struck her family.

Shortly after I completed my studies, my grandmother, who had been the biggest sponsor of my musical training, had a stroke and was paralysed on her right side. In the last three weeks of her life, I happened to hear about music therapy, as a profession, that assisted people to recover from acquired brain injuries, such as strokes. I was immediately interested in finding out more, and I have often thought of the Music Therapy door as the last threshold that my grandmother helped me to walk through, in life and death.

With a new goal in her sights, Tania ventured to Australia where she completed her graduate diploma and masters in creative arts therapy. Now, Tania is sharing her skills and talents as an avid performer, whose live performances are described as a rare mix of passion, sensuality, refinement, depth, and vitality.

She is also helping people from all walks of life with her arts and music therapy, Music is one of the things that almost everybody has had a relationship [with] to throughout their lives; a language that speaks to the emotions, to the mind, memories, connected to lived experience, to the rhythm of life, our heartbeat. It has been part of so many narratives, relationships, history, and has a tremendous capacity to evoke the deepest of responses.

You can catch Tania Balil's trio performing at The Full Moon Hotel on Sunday 9th June from 2pm.