Tina Broad

With a career spanning more than 30 years, Tina has worked as a performer, educator, researcher, policy advisor, and advocate, always championing the power of music to transform lives. In 2011, Tina’s work was recognised internationally with a prestigious Global Rights Award from the International Music Council (UNESCO). She holds a PhD in education, with a research focus on the career and learning journeys of musicians in the contemporary music industry.

She founded Music: Count Us In, which became the world’s largest school music initiative, uniting over a million Australian students, teachers, and families each year and, with APRA AMCOS, the SongMakers program, matching songwriters and producers with high schools to mentor the next generation of Australian hit-makers.

Growing up immersed in the voices of legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Stevie Wonder, Tina developed a deep and intuitive ear for harmony. She has workshopped with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Eric Dozier (ex-Harlem Gospel Choir), Austin Willacy, and Tony Backhouse among others - experiences that have helped shape her own dynamic approach to group singing.

As the founder and director of Sing Express, Tina has led pop-up workshops across Australia, Japan, Fiji, Samoa, and New Zealand, inspiring thousands to find joy and connection through singing. She also co-created Chorus 4 Kindness, a pub choir-style collaboration with the Milton Ulladulla Community Kindness initiative (MUCK Up), raising funds to support anti-bullying programs for young people. For 20 years, she has directed The Glorious MUDSingers choir of more than 60 voices, a much-loved community group whose tours and performances have raised over $100,000 for local charities.

Through Sing Express, Tina continues to create spaces where voices unite, music uplifts, and communities thrive.