Jane Belfrage is an exceptionally creative australian leader in non-classical harp playing, improvising, performing, composing and music-educating.

After a classical music education on piano, she began playing and composing for the harp at 26. Her forty-year career on Rigby harps includes solo and group performances at folk music festivals in eastern australia, including Port Fairy, Apollo Bay, the National, Maleny, Woodford, and Lismore.

Her music has been used in films in Australia and Ireland. 

She is a lifelong activist in support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and social justice, and is currently supporting the community group GrandMothers Against Removals Victoria (GMAR Victoria). 

She is a published writer of cultural theory, short stories and poetry, and an accomplished textile artist with a passion for upcycling secondhand Japanese silk leftovers.

She holds an MA in feminist theory and wrote her thesis The Great Australian Silence (1993) on the colonisation of acoustic space in australia, and listening as a practice of knowledge.

She worked as an advocate for postgraduate students for ten years at La Trobe University, and has raised a loving daughter who is a talented musician and artist.

Jane is a proud survivor of lifelong chronic illness, major depression, C-PTSD and other hardships. She has used DBT as a major recovery tool since 2020.
Jane believes that communicating beautiful and creative music on the harp has enabled her to live. Jane shares her passion for the miracle of music with tenderness, humour and simplicity in her amazing harp workshops, fueled by her belief that music-making is an inherent human birthright and capacity.

Her love of the harp has accompanied her throughout her life, and this is what she wants to share with you … so you can experience it for yourself.