Choral Singing as a Health Promoting Resource

1. “I get sick if I don’t go to
choir practice!”
(Cristin, choral singer, diagnosed with leukemia)
Choral Singing as a Health
Promoting Resource

2. Health=quality of life=well-being=a
better life.
A notion of health

3. Mastery/empowerment
Vitality
Social belonging
Meaning and coherence
Aspects of a good life

4. a tool for developing competency
and empowerment
a resource in building social
networks
a producer of vitality
a way of providing meaning and
coherence in life
Ruud: Music-making as

5. Local community choir

6. Multicultural gospel choir

7. Chamber choir

8. Please feel free to contact me:
Anne Haugland Balsnes
Ass. Prof. of Music, Ansgar University College
E-mail: balsnes@ansgarskolen.no
Phone: +47 48 18 71 08