Sound As ArtAbout Danielle
A life shaped by music
Danielle Joynt is a musician, composer, educator and sound-meditation facilitator whose work has been shaped by a lifetime of listening. Across performance, teaching, composition and guided practice, she brings musical knowledge together with curiosity, care and close attention to the character of sound.
Music as a lifelong practice
Danielle’s musical life began with the trombone. She performed with the West Australian Arts Orchestra before completing a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance at the Canberra School of Music, Australian National University. Further study at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary, deepened an approach to musicianship grounded in listening, voice and musical understanding.
She went on to teach at the Canberra School of Music, establish the Young Conservatorium at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, and direct Cottage School of Music Junior for more than two decades. Her work has also included children’s choirs, early-childhood music, teacher education, composition, narration and performance.
Teaching, listening and relationship
Danielle has spent decades creating musical experiences for children, families, students and teachers. From classrooms and choirs to workshops and mentoring, her approach begins with the belief that musical understanding grows through participation, imagination and attentive listening.
Her study of counselling and trauma-sensitive yoga has further informed the way she holds space and communicates. These disciplines support the quality of attention she brings to her work; they are not presented here as clinical treatment or as claims about therapeutic outcomes.
Dhvani Sound Meditation
In 2022 Danielle founded Dhvani Sound Meditation as a dedicated expression of this practice. Working with gongs, monochord, bowls, voice, silence and other resonant instruments, she creates guided and instrumental experiences grounded in music and attentive listening.
Dhvani—sound, echo, resonance and suggested meaning—describes an invitation to listen not only to what is struck or sung, but to what continues, gathers and lingers.
A practice still unfolding
Today Danielle’s work moves between original composition, songs, education, sound meditation, performance and collaboration. In 2026 her practice included a music residency at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre and Teacher Trainer Cottage Foundation.
Grounded in Yallingup and Fremantle, Danielle continues to teach, compose and explore the possibilities of sound.
A considered path
Selected experience and study
Music and education
- Bachelor of Music, Trombone Performance, Canberra School of Music, Australian National University
- Postgraduate musicianship study, Kodály Institute, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Hungary
- Lecturer in Early Childhood Music, Canberra School of Music
- Founder and Director, Young Conservatorium, Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
- Director, Cottage School of Music Junior
- Founder, Dhvani Sound Meditation
- Music residency, Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, 2026
Counselling and teaching practice
- Master of Counselling, Edith Cowan University
- Graduate Certificate in Counselling, Edith Cowan University
- 350-hour teacher training with Tamara Graham, Tamara Yoga
- 100-hour Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Training, six-month mentorship and ongoing supervision with Martine Coates (McDougall), The Yoga Clinic
- Postgraduate Chair Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Enlightenment
- Foundation and Advanced Children’s Yoga Teacher Training with Loraine Rushton, Zenergy Yoga
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