Musical Hospitality – bringing musical joy to hospitals and senior care facilities

50 Shades of Hospitality

This podcast was by far one of our most popular and features Tom Su, a former hotelier who has found a unique way of combining music with hospitality. After working several years in the hospitality industry in Taipei, Tom chose a different path in telecommunications. But his love for music and his desire to share this passion has finally led him to bringing musical joy to hospitals and senior care facilities. Listen to this episode to learn how he combines music, hospitality, communications, counselling and volunteering in his life.

Tom Su is a musician, a hotelier, a telecommunication manager, a life counsellor and a volunteer.

He was born in Taiwan and has a fine arts bachelor degree in violin. He also graduated from Glion

Hotel School in 1996. He later became the director of sales and marketing at The Ritz Taipei at the age

of 30. In 2003, he emigrated to Canada where he earned an MBA at the University of Victoria, specializing in Service Management. During the pandemic, he recognized the mental health crisis, so he went back to school and got his certifications in Life Coach and Life Counseling.

Currently Tom is working at Telus, a telecommunications company in Canada. Since 2006, he has also been playing the violin with the West Coast Symphony. Most importantly, he is an active volunteer in senior care facilities, hospitals and his community.

Recently, Tom was awarded as a Local Hero from the mayor of Burnaby in June 2023, to recognize his contribution to the community and an article about his volunteer work was featured in Pancouver, a local Vancouver publication.

(https://pancouver.ca/violinist-tom-su-spreads-joy-and-builds-empathy-by-taking-his-music-

to-the-people/).