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A violinist, Cecenas played through high school with the Ozark Festival Orchestra. Music therapy is a discipline first used in veterans hospitals. Michigan State University offered a degree in the field in 1944 and it became standardized as a widely recognized discipline in 1988. Professionals formed the American Music Therapy Association in 1998. Read more here…

Some of the clients are confined to wheelchairs. Some struggle with verbalization, while others struggle with motor skills. But during their sessions with DeKeyzer, they are all musicians, if only for a short time. Read the rest here…

MEDINA — Local musicians and students from Baldwin Wallace University are volunteering their time to play music for patients and staff at Medina Hospital. The hospital hopes to host the concerts at least once per month. Read more by clicking here 

A world renowned pianist and part-time faculty member of the music department of Edinburgh University, Tanya has been in her native homeland of Sri Lanka as a volunteer with the SJC 87 Initiative using instruments and song to help local children. “The musical creativity of the children and their amazing smiles as they expressed themselves through music were particularly powerful moments,” recalls Tanya. Read more here…

“The way that forensic music therapy works is the patient will select an instrument and improvise with it. The patient expresses themselves without words, gaining confidence through building the relationships with peers and the therapist in the room sufficient to feel brave enough to select an instrument and to improvise with it – even if they have never used an instrument before.” Read the rest by clicking here… 

The Music Heals series is being produced by Ministry Door County Medical Center and is intended to raise funds for, and awareness of, The Healing Project, a collaboration between MDCMC and the Community Clinic of Door County. Read the rest here…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the heart of a bustling chemotherapy treatment area, a cellist sits off to the side, playing his instrument for patients seated in open bays nearby. Read more here…

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violist has been an active proponent of musical therapy and wellness since recovering from breast cancer. Read more here…

The local Long & McQuade store raised just over $1,700 in its 2012 music therapy drive. The store has been raising funds for the hospital’s pedi-atric music therapy program since 2008, raising more than $3,600 over five years. Read the rest here… 

A measure that would certify Indiana therapists who specialize in using music to treat people with autism, Alzheimer’s and other conditions is advancing in the General Assembly. Read more here…