Xingyu Yao

• Founded Bilingual podcast featuring intercultural conversations on music, health, and lifestyle.
• 遇见有趣的灵魂，活出真实的自己，让我们一起谈心、弹琴、谈音乐。

• Provide consultation and curriculum design for music therapy post-baccalaureate and graduate level curriculum development
• Design, facilitate, and produce customized workshops and courses with partners including Wan Sheng Xin Yu Integrated Art Therapy, PsyByond, Asian Mental Health Collective, Berklee College of Music, Shanghai HongKou Psychiatric Hospital, Keru Knowledge

• Design and implement curriculums to meet each student's unique goals with student-centered approach
• Facilitate master classes and performance at community center, Café, and prestigious venues
• Compose music in various styles, including Jazz, Funk, Pop, Rock, Folk, Chinese Traditional Music
• Co-create interdisciplinary projects involves music, visual arts, dance and movement, theater
• Participate in recording projects as a pianist, Hammond organist, keyboardist, vocalist, bandleader, arranger, producer

Began classical piano training at 5 years old, strong improvisation skills in Jazz and extensive experience in world music

👥Past and current Partnerships including Berklee College of Music, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI-USA), Powers Music School, Community Music Center of Boston, South Cove Community Health Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Berklee Performance Center, Shanghai Concert Hall, Boston Conservatory

Music Instructor for Youth with Special Needs Pilot Program
• Assess, plan and provide performance-based music therapy for Youth with Special Needs Pilot Program
• Explore a variety of musical styles and sounds with special needs youth through singing, percussion, ethnic instruments and improvisation
• Document the progress and record data for funding purpose
• Organize and prep youth to perform in a public setting twice during the program

• Outreach to Chinese medicine practitioner, artist, and musician
• Support Guild’s exploration and implementation of music and culture as healing
• Support Guild’s technically to implement capabilities for sound, light and visual enhancement of programs
• Plan and promote cultural arts activities, events, and art installations
• Design and implement workshops that cater to the needs of the community served by the Guild

• Provide 1:1 and group music therapy services to in-house clients and to outreach agency groups.
• Complete documentation including assessments, weekly progress notes, quarterly progress reports, and annual agency profiles
• Participate in weekly supervision with the Director of Music Therapy
• Represent CMCB and Music Therapy Department internally and externally
• Communicate with direct service staff and administrative teams at community outreach sites
• Communicate with caregivers and other interdisciplinary team members regarding client progress
• Provide supervision for Music Therapy Interns and Berklee College of Music practicum students
• Produce music therapy content for marketing and educational purpose
• Attend and produce content for annual fundraising Gala that contributed 50% of the fundraising

• Launch Watch City Singers Creative Aging Program as teaching artist and music director in collaboration with local news station, Aging Council, Blue-Cross Blue Shield
• Develop new programs and enrollment growth in collaboration with CEO and Director

• Design and facilitate music therapy groups as part of Health and Wellness for All (HWA) in collaboration with the director and coordinators

• Full time intern: assess, design, and implement individual and group sessions for clients and families with diverse mental physical, psychological, and spiritual needs in long term assisted care, dementia special care, and short-term rehabilitation care
• Initiate and promote co-treatment collaboration with social workers, PT, OT, art therapist, and dance therapist
• Manage 27 weekly sessions
• Respond to urgent request from rehabilitation floor for pain management and emotional regulation
• Provide hospice care for end-of-life patients and their family
• Collaborate with chaplain to enhance patients’ spiritual life
• Conduct independent research project on the creative expression in dementia patients

• Assist in the completion of multimedia projects for the Learning Resources Network
• Convert and master archival multimedia materials for distribution and storage
• Support Learning Resources events as Tech Crew

Focus on observation, assistance, planning, and facilitation of music therapy interventions and sessions, as well as assessment, goal and objective identification, documentation, and presentation of progress. Additionally, all included participation in weekly individual and group supervisions.

Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA February - May 2018
• Observe and facilitate multiple weekly music therapy sessions with patients and their families in a pediatric setting, including bedside service, NICU, cardiac ICU, rehabilitation and operation room
• Develop expertise in pain management, emotional regulation, environmental music design, developmental needs, rehabilitation, and family therapy

Tufts Medical Center Psychiatric Unit, Boston, MA September - December 2017
• Observe and facilitate weekly music therapy sessions in the in-patient psychiatric unit
• Help trans-gender teenagers explore self-identity through songwriting
• Promote emotional processing and creative expression through group music improvisation and music technologies

Peterborough Senior & Youth Center, Boston, MA June - August 2017
• Co-facilitate a weekly community music therapy group where we created communal, social, and intergenerational experiences for independent and active elders and youth, using both pre-composed and original music and performance-based music therapy interventions
• Co-create a nurturing community environment with music therapy students and community leaders

Uphams Corner Health Center, Roxbury, MA September - December 2016
• Observe and facilitate a weekly group with seniors ranging from 60 – 90 years of age diagnosed with varying disabilities including dementia, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, arthritis, and stroke

Little Sprouts, LLC, Brighton, MA February - May 2016
• Observe and co-facilitate two 30-minute weekly music therapy groups with children ranging from 3 - 5 years old with developmental delays in an inclusive environment
• Help children to achieve developmental milestones, develop social skills and creative expressions

• Work closely with the Student Health & Wellness professional staff to deliver educational events, campaigns, and activities on a variety of health issues including alcohol and drugs, sexual health, sleep/stress management, nutrition, healthy relationships, and mental health
• Support Student Health & Wellness’ mission of promoting holistic wellness by helping members of the Berklee student community connect with resources and gain knowledge that will aid in the enhancement of their well-being
• Seek out opportunities to work collaboratively with student clubs/organizations, Housing & Residence Life, and other departments to create, publicize, and deliver health and wellness promotion programs, campaigns, or events
• Serve as a health and wellness information and referral resource

• Perform journalistic research and conduct interviews of fellow students and alumni
• Be on top of fellow students and alumni’s achievement, artistic works, career, dream and inspirations
• Showcase Berklee life to inside and outside of the community

• Support faculty and staff member to ensure a smooth, meaningful, and rewarding conference experiences
• Answer questions, provide details, offer directions, monitor rooms and address technical issues on the spot
• On-campus job during winter break

• Respond to 24-hour Mental Health Counseling Hotline under supervision
• Listen, empathize, and support clients over the phone
• Assist in Workshop Design and Marketing

• Elected Captain of Digital Wellness solution
• Elected to Student Delegate for Cohort 7 in 2020

• Received Berklee Achievement Scholarship
• Dean's List every semester
• Elected to Vice President for Music Therapy Club in 2017
• Received Bugle Leadership Scholarship
• Received Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
• Received Music for Social Change Entrepreneur Fellowship