Lawyer and pianist, Dr Kylie Weston-Scheuber shares her childhood growing up in a musical and creative family, her experience as a BMus student and how success in her legal career has been influenced by the problem solving and logic skills she mastered through her music education. She shares how she has maintained a musical life through Bottled Snail Productions
Kylie Weston-Scheuber is a Melbourne-based barrister specialising in commercial and administrative law. Through her previous employment, she has extensive experience as an advocate, including in contested hearings, trials, sentences and appeals. She has a PhD in law from the Australian National University. Kylie is available to accept briefs in Victoria and other jurisdictions. She is a member of Greens List.
QUOTES
“People think of music as being a creative pursuit, and it is. But it also has, I think, a very big logic and problem solving component. And that’s what law ultimately is about.”
“It never ceases to amaze me the number of lawyers I meet who have high level music performance skills.”
“One of the key ideas behind it (Bottled Snail) is to improve mental wellbeing in the legal profession. As many people know, the creative arts are a great way of doing that.”
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PODCAST TEAM
Production Penny Manwaring
Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick
Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun
Theme Music Composed by Natasha Pearson
Theme Music Performed by Alison McIntosh-Deszcz (soprano), Natasha Lin (piano), and Susan Eldridge (horn).
Theme Music Recorded Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio, 3MBS Fine Music in Melbourne in October 2016. With thanks to recording engineer Cheryl Scott.
FIRST BROADCAST
08 November 2016