Phil Heuzenroeder

Phil Heuzenroeder is a musician and community cultural development leader working in Melbourne, Victoria and Australia. His work focuses on supporting people with experience of disability, mental illness and exclusion to find their voice through music, engage in society through paid and unpaid work and achieve lasting social change.

Phil Heuzenroeder
Birth namePhil Heuzenroeder
GenresGospel, community singing rock
Occupation(s)Singer, community development
Years active1985–present
Associated actsBiPolar Bears, Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir

Phil directs the 90-voice Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir, is founder and Executive Officer of Wild At Heart Community Arts (which runs the Music Network for Mental Health) and Club Wild.[1]

Phil Heuzenroeder leads the Bipolar Bears rock band for people living with mental health issues. The band is a rock'n'roll institution in Melbourne, Victoria and Australia, performing their own brand of rock music and advocating for mental health issues for over 18 years.[2]

Heuzenroeder completed a degree in Sociology and an Advance Diploma in music. He has performed publicly for most of his life, winning South Australian busker of the year in 1985. Presumably, most of this would've occurred in Adelaide as it would not have been very viable to perform in regional areas of South Australia.[3]He also performed with numerous bands in his home town of Adelaide and for a number of years leading and singing with the popular a cappella quartet Naked.

References
  1. Wild for a night of our own, The Sun Herald, 1 August 2004. Accessed 11 October 2008
  2. Mental as anything, The Age, 16 May 2006. Accessed 11 October 2008
  3. Heidelberg Leader News, 22 August 2007.



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