MusiciansWellness.org
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Musicians' Wellness, Inc. - Home Page
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Dr. Louise Montello, NCPsyA, MT-BC is a certified music therapist/psychoanalyst and leader in the field of Performing Arts Medicine, having published research papers and editorials in professional and popular journals and presented seminars on music therapy for musicians at professional conferences and conservatories round the world for over fifteen years. In 1990 she won the First Annual IAMA Bridgebuilders' Award for her contributions to the field of Arts Medicine. She is a clinical research scientist in the Department of Psychology at New York University where she has conducted research on the use of group music therapy for treating musical performance stress, as well as studies on the effects of stress on the immune system in professional musicians. She has also conducted a study on treating performance stress in high school age musicians at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. In addition, she has been presenting workshops on prevention of performance-related anxiety and injuries regularly at Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music. She has also presented workshops on music therapy for musicians at Berklee College of Music in Boston and at Gotenberg Conservatory in Sweden. Her music therapy approach has been featured on several news programs in the NY metropolitan area. Dr. Montello's book, Essential Musical Intelligence was published in Spring, 2002.
Dr. Edgar E. Coons, PhD is a psychologist and behavioral neuroscientist with extensive research on brain mechanism mediating affect, as well as a musician (pianist and composer), having studied with Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, and Paul Hindemith. He combines these attributes in the service of performing artists, having staged at NYU in 1985 the groundbreaking First International Conference on Mind, Body, and the Performing Arts: Stress Processes in the Psychology and Physiology of Music, Dance, and Drama. At Birmingham Southern and the University of Alabama, this was followed in 1989 by a Second International Conference on Mind, Body, and the Performing Arts: Pedagological Factors in the Control of Stress in Music, Dance, and Drama. Via contacts gained through these and similar activities, Prof. Coons, along with Dr. Montello, has become uniquely qualified to utilize New York City's status as world capital of the music performance business in gaining access to varied types of musicians for the study of health issues in their profession.
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