Posts Tagged ‘music theraphy’

PostHeaderIcon Alford celeb supports music therapy centre

Emeli Sande

Donside pop sensation Emeli Sandé has announced her support of a fundraising appeal to open an Aberdeen facility for a music therapy charity. Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland requires donations of £20,000 to open a dedicated music therapy service in the North East. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon ASU music-therapy program a unique form of healing

Scott Tonkinson

ASU music-therapy program a unique form of healing. When Scott Tonkinson begins working with clients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer’s disease or another cause, among the first things he does is strum a guitar or play his keyboard. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy at Wilmot Cancer Center

Rochester, N.Y. – Patients at the Wilmot Cancer Institute now have access to music therapy through a new pilot program. Certified Music Therapist Mandy Elliot said, “I feel like music for me has been my own therapy. I always had singing, sit down at a piano and play something, and it somehow got out what I needed to get out.” Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Talking with … A guitarist who performs therapy

Oliver Jacobson

You now work mostly with the guitar, but you started with the violin at age 5. Was music something you gravitated toward? My parents read in a book to start kids on music early, so when I was 5, they gave me a choice of instrument and I chose the violin. In high school, I started playing in some bands and applied to the Berklee College of Music, where I wanted to study jazz violin. I got in, but after a year and a half, I felt unfulfilled by trying to be the best and practicing all the time, so I left for nine months and went on tour. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Welsh music therapist working in Palestine describes horror of being tear gassed – but vows it won’t stop her

A music therapist from South Wales has told of her horror at being tear gassed while working with special needs children in Palestine. Liz Coombes, from Cardiff, says it is the first time she has been tear gassed during 10 years working as a volunteer there. But she has promised to return, despite mounting problems in recent months, and hopes to send students from the music therapy MA course she leads at the University of South Wales to teach there. Read more here

PostHeaderIcon Japanese animators unite for music therapy project

By Your Side

The Zapuni LLC organisation was founded in 2012 to bring together Japanese artists and musicians to collaborate on different projects to help raise awareness and money for aid. Read more here

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