Public Work

Performance, speaking, and storytelling shaped by adaptive musicianship, disability, and lived experience.

Amy Wang-Hiller is a violinist, educator, and founder whose public work brings together music, disability, healthcare, and access.

She collaborates with organizations, schools, arts spaces, and community events through performance, speaking, interviews, and interdisciplinary conversation.

Format:

Performance

Solo violin performances for arts, community, and mission-driven events.

Speaking

Talks, panels, workshops, and keynote-style presentations on adaptive musicianship, disability, advocacy, and healthcare experience.


Interviews & Podcasts

Conversations for podcasts, media, research, and public dialogue.

Community & Cross-Sector Events

Collaborations across arts, healthcare, education, and disability spaces.


Speaking Topics:

  • Adaptive Musicianship

    What it means to keep making music through disability, changing function, and evolving technique.

  • Disability, Identity, and Artistic Life

    Performance, career, and selfhood when the body changes. When we face a career change or maintain the artistry work.

  • Complex Patients and Healthcare Advocacy

    What healthcare systems miss, and what patient experience can teach clinicians, educators, and institutions.

  • Access, Inclusion, and the Arts

    How arts spaces, classrooms, and organizations can think more deeply about accessibility and belonging.

  • Storytelling as Advocacy

    Why personal narrative matters in medicine, disability culture, and public life.

  • Adaptive Skills and Life in a Medical Odyssey

    How adapting as a musician and navigating a long medical journey reshaped Amy’s understanding of skill, identity, and what it means to keep going.