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EPISODE · Apr 12, 2026 · 19 MIN

Chris O'Connor from Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre

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It's Music Therapy Week, and Chris O'Connor is a registered music therapist at the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre in Auckland whose career has taken him from jazz studies and ethnomusicology to touring the world with Don McGlashan, Neil Finn and The Phoenix Foundation. He joins Culture 101 to talk about how music functions as therapy and what drew him to the field.

It's Music Therapy Week, and Chris O'Connor is a registered music therapist at the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre in Auckland whose career has taken him from jazz studies and ethnomusicology to touring the world with Don McGlashan, Neil Finn and The Phoenix Foundation. He joins Culture 101 to talk about how music functions as therapy and what drew him to the field.

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