Health Promotion in Tertiary Music Schools
Oxford Handbook Project
Johns Hopkins University
Collaborative Musician Health Advocacy Initiative
Oxford Handbook of Musician Health Advocacy Project
Stand Alone Position Papers
These stand alone position papers are part of the larger Oxford Handbook of Musician Health Advocacy project and will guide the direction of relevant chapters in the handbook (Judy Palac, Kris Chesky, Bridget Rennie-Salonen, and Sarah Hoover, Eds)
This group's work will converge around the challenge of health promotion in tertiary music schools.
Purpose:
To agree on a set of broad guidelines and recommendations regarding health education in all tertiary music schools across the world.
The convergence activities for this group will be lead by Raluca Matei, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Performing Arts and Health (the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University)
Projected timeline includes online meetings and work towards one position paper output for 2025 PAMA in Washington, DC. Preliminary ideas will be presented at PAMA London (July 17-22, 2024)
THE PROCESS
This group's discussion will converge around the challenge of:
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Health promotion in tertiary music education institutions
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To agree on a set of broad evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for all tertiary music education institutions around the world in terms of health promotion
What are we doing?
An interdisciplinary convergence activity to generate, clarify and select ideas towards developing a position paper.
What are we seeking expert consensus on?
State of the field
Problem
Needs/gaps
Current evidence
Best practices and examples
Vision
Multidisciplinary and holistic approaches to health
Health promotion principles
Health education aims and content
Why are we doing this?
To support health advocacy efforts for collegiate musicians. This stand alone position paper will support the objectives of the Oxford Handbook of Musician Health Advocacy through informing the relevant chapters.
The objectives of the handbook include:
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Rationalizing/justifying the need for specific roles, responsibilities, and competencies of key clinical, allied health, and educational professionals working in, with, or for a tertiary music school on behalf of the health of student musicians
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Projecting a health promoting vision for tertiary music schools
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Recommending action and potential strategies for implementation and accountability
Position paper qualities:
We aim for an output that is credible and impactful.
Credible
Appropriate expert composition
Representatives from around the world
Student representatives
Group discussions with all authors
Thorough structure and transparent reporting
Informed by evidence and research
Impactful
High visibility
Accessible for free
Endorsements
Process qualities:
Inclusive and transdisciplinary • Breaks disciplinary silos • Engaging • Exciting • Equitable • Efficient • Promotes a sense of ownership
Phases
Phase 1: Literature review and circulating document before idea generation
Phase 2: Idea generation 1 (May - June 2024 meetings; 11 meetings)
Small groups
Collect ideas suggestions, experiences and general opinions - individual and post discussion
What is the vision? What should it look like?
How do we see health?
How do we see health education?
What should be the aims of health education?
What should be the content of health education?
Who should be involved?
Size and diversity of expert group for each topic
Discipline
Experience
Geographical location
Phase 3: Thorough analysis of all transcripts, presentation of preliminary findings at PAMA 2024 (London), and further discussions with members of the working group
Phase 4: Idea generation 2 (September - October 2024 meetings)
Phase 5: Position paper/manuscript preparation & ask authors for feedback/edits/review
Phase 6: Dissemination
Publish
Present at World Summit & PAMA 2025, Washington DC
Current Group Members
(in alphabetical order)
Bronwen Ackermann
PhD MPH BAppSc(PT),
Associate Professor,
Senior Musculoskeletal Anatomist
Specialist Musicians' Physiotherapist
Churchill Fellow
Humboldt Fellow Biomedical Science, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, Australia
https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/bronwen-ackermann.html
Taichi Akutsu
PhD
Professor, Health and Welfare Science
Okayama Prefectural University
Japan
Joy Allen
PhD, MT-BC
Music Therapy Chair
Berklee College of Music, US
Founding and acting director of the Music and Health Institute at Berklee
Uğur Alpagut
PhD
Professor (Education Faculty, Music Education)
Head of the Department of Fine Arts Education, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Türkiye
Kathryn Ananda-Owens
DMA
Professor of Music - Piano
St Olaf College, US
Founding member of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble
Past Member, Board of Directors of the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA)
Liliana S. Araújo
PhD, Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society and Ordem dos Psicólogos, Portugal)
Assistant Professor, Applied Performance Sciences
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, Canada
Rachel Arnold
PhD
Academic Director (Doctoral), Reader in Sport and Performance Psychology
University of Bath, UK
Kári Árnason
MSc Performing Arts Medicine
Sports, performing arts and orthopedic physiotherapist
PhD student in Health Science, University of Iceland
Tekla Babyak
PhD in Musicology from Cornell University in 2014
Disabled Independent Scholar-Activist
Freelance Academic Editor
Based in California, US
Margaret Baroody
Singing Voice Specialist
Voice faculty at the Peabody Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Serap Bastepe-Gray
MD, Master's of Music (Guitar Performance), Master's in Occupational Therapy
Assistant Professor, Peabody Institute
Course developer and instructor of Playing Well, Peabody Institute
Kristina Rosa Beuschau
MD
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Odense University Hospital Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark
Melissa Bidlack
MS, MM, CCC-SLP
Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology; Master of Music in Vocal Performance
Speech-language pathologist and singing voice specialist, Johns Hopkins Voice Center, US
Anna Bull
PhD
Co-founder and director of The 1752 Group, a research and campaign group addressing sexual harassment in higher education
Senior Lecturer, University of York, UK
https://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/anna-bull/
Anthony Bush
PhD
Deputy Head of Department, Department for Health
University of Bath, UK
Susanne Callan-Harris
PT, MS, CLT
Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, where she teaches the Keys to Healthy Music
Adjunct Professor, Ithaca College Graduate Studies, US
Clinical Instructor
Kris Chesky
PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Chair, Performing Arts and Health
Peabody Institute
Johns Hopkins University, US
Ju-Yang Chi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Center for Music, Technology and Health (RCMTH)
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
https://rcmth.site.nthu.edu.tw/index.php
Remi Chiu
PhD
Musicologist specializing in Renaissance music and the history of medicine
Author of Plague and Music in the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press)
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, US
Vanessa Cornett
DMA, CHt, CMI
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy; Director of Keyboard Studies, University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis - St. Paul, US
Marianna Cortesi
PhD
Associate Lecturer in Music Education
University of York, UK
https://www.york.ac.uk/arts-creative-technologies/people/mariannacortesi/
Samuel Couth
PhD
Lecturer, Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience
University of Manchester, UK
Anna Détári
PhD
Lecturer in Performance Science
Royal College of Music, UK
Usha Devadas
PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Speech and Hearing, Manipal College of Health Professions,
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
https://www.manipal.edu/soahs-manipal/department-faculty/faculty-list/usha-devada/_jcr_content.html
Mine Doğantan-Dack
PhD
Professor of Music/Musicology
University of Cambridge, UK
David Dolan
PhD
Professor and Head, Centre for Creative Performance and Classical Improvisation
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
Sheryl Doe
Joint Managing Director & Dispensing Optician
Allegro Optical, UK
Sarah Dunbar
DMA, Master's of Music
Assistant Professor of Saxophone
Jacksonville State University, US
https://www.jsu.edu/music/faculty_staff/faculty_bios/dunbar-sarah.html
Grete Ege
MSc
Assistant Physiotherapy manager, Helse Bergen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/grete-ege-75978b50/?originalSubdomain=no
Alison Evans
PhD
Research Fellow
University of Sydney, Australia
https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/alison.evans.html
Matt Frost
BSc (Hons)
Clinical Audiologist and Hearing Therapist,
Harley Street Hearing and Musicians' Hearing Services, London, UK
https://harleysthearing.co.uk/team/matt-frost/
Marie Fujimoto
Peter Garden
Chief Operating Officer, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, UK
Diana Gilchrist
Danni Gilbert
PhD
Assistant Professor Instrumental Music Education
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US
Jane Ginsborg
PhD, C.Psychol., AFBPsS, FHEA, FISM
Associate Director of Research
Director, Centre for Music Performance Research
Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Lori Gooding
PhD
Associate Professor of Music Therapy,
Florida State University College of Music, US
Jennifer Grau Sanchez
PhD
Professor, University School of Nursing and Occupational Therapy of Terrassa, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Sean Gregory
Professor
Vice-Principal and Director of Innovation, Engagement and Lifelong Learning
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
Alinka Greasley
PhD, FHEA, CPsychol
Professor of Music Psychology
University of Leeds, UK
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/286/professor-alinka-greasley
Alistair Greenwood
Master's Degree Music Performance
Teaches Musicians’ Health and Wellbeing
University of Auckland, New Zealand
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairgreenwood/?originalSubdomain=nz
Christine Guptill
PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada
https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-health-sciences/rehabilitation/our-professors/christine-guptill
Katarina Habe
PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Music Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
John Habron-James
PhD
Head of Music, Health and Wellbeing,
Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Johannes Hatfield
PhD
Professor (Associate), Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Rebecca Herman
PhD Student
Royal College of Music, London, UK
https://www.rcm.ac.uk/research/people/details/?id=HER17024389
Horst Hildebrandt
MD, MA
Professor of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Basel (Switzerland),
https://www.fhnw.ch/en/people/horst-hildebrandt
Ian Bryan Hoffman
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator in Acoustics, Johns Hopkins University, US
Jessica Hunt
DMA
Assistant Professor, Music Theory
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, US
Anna Immerz
PhD
Professor of Music Physiology
Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine, Germany
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/musikermedizin/mitarbeiter/anna-immerz.html
Michael Ingle
BSc(Phty), MClinPhys(MSK) MMus(Perf), MACP
Physiotherapist,
Founder, TheMusician.Physio
Erja Joukamo-Ampuja
PhD
Lecturer in Wind Instruments, Percussion, and Harp, Sibelius Academy, Uniarts, Finland
https://www.uniarts.fi/en/people/erja-joukamo-ampuja/;
https://www.erjajoukamoampuja.fi/
Gustafsson Iveri Kekenadze
PhD Researcher in European Studies,
Lund University, Sweden;
Board Member at European Performing Arts Students' Association
https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/iveri-kekenadze-gustafsson
Taru-Anneli Koivisto
PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
Frederico Kochem
PhD, MSc (Rehabilitation Sciences), DSc (Rehabilitation Sciences)
Associate Professor, Centro Universitário Serra dos Órgãos
Brazil
Heather Kurzbauer
PhD
Senior Lecturer in Law,
University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law, The Netherlands
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/u/h.kurzbauer/h.kurzbauer.html
Amy Laursen
DMA
Associate Professor Music (Horn)
University of South Dakota, US
https://www.usd.edu/research-and-faculty/faculty-and-staff/amy-laursen
Geneviève Leclair
DMA
Associate Professor of Conducting
Composition Department
Berklee College of Music, US
Freelance conductor; symphony, ballet, and opera
André Lee
MD
Professor of music physiology and musicians' medicine
University of Music, Theater, and Media
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine
Hannover, Germany
https://www.immm.hmtm-hannover.de/en/institute/people/andre-lee/
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
PhD
Emeritus Professor of Music
King's College London, UK
Author of Challenging Performance (2020)
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-daniel-leech-wilkinson
Melissa Hatheway Lewis
MEd in Educational Leadership
Director of Bands & Instrumental Music Coordinator at Denison ISD
Texas, US
Shelly-Anne Li
PhD
Assistant Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Veronika Jana Lubert
PhD
Professor of Musicians’ Health,
School of Music, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland
Alex Lubet
PhD
Professor of Composition and Music
College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota, US
Author of Music, Disability, and Society (2011)
Thomas Mamou
MD
Sports Medicine
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, France
J. Matt McCrary
PhD
Scientific Staff
Institute of Human Genetics
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
https://www.immm.hmtm-hannover.de/en/institute/alumni/j-matt-mccrary/
Irene Monterroso
Vice President, Costa Rica National Symphony Musicians Union,
Costa Rica
https://ioc.fim-musicians.org/es/malmo-2024/speakers/irene-monterroso
Yuki Morijiri
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Teacher Education, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Adina Mornell
PhD
Professor of Instrumental and Vocal Music Education
Institute for Music Education
University of Music and Theater Munich, Germany
Vanessa Mulvey
Master's Degree
Music Educator
Interdisciplinary Studies
New England Conservatory, US
George Musgrave
PhD
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology and Creative Industries, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Naomi Norton
PhD
Lecturer in Music Education
University of York, UK
https://www.york.ac.uk/arts-creative-technologies/people/naomi-norton/
Ian O'Brien
Eitan Ornoy
PhD
Professor of Music
Faculty of Music Education
Levinsky-Wingate Academic College
Margaret Osborne
PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Music
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
University of Melbourne, Australia
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/393960-margaret-osborne
Judy Palac
PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus of Music Education,
Michigan State University, US
Tim Palmer
MA (Cantab); PGCert TLHE
Head of Learning & Teaching
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK
Clorinda Panebianco
PhD
Professor
School of the Arts: Music
University of Pretoria, South Africa
https://africanscientists.africa/business-directory/panebianco/
Ellis Pecen
PhD
Performance Psychologist & Consultant
Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
UK
Rosie Perkins
PhD, FHEA, FRSPH, HonRCM
Professor of Music, Health and Social Science
Royal College of Music, UK
Keith Phillips
PhD
Access to Work Support
Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Angelica Postu
PhD
Music Therapist at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Founder of the Romanian Music Therapy Association
Bridget Rennie-Salonen
PhD
Senior Lecturer and Head of Woodwinds
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Giulia Ripani
PhD
Assistant Professor in Music Education
Teachers College
Columbia University, US
Michelle Robinson
PhD Student, Loughborough University, UK
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-robinson-12b92986/?originalSubdomain=uk
Dawn Rose
PhD
Professor
Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Switzerland
Sefkat Saglamer
PhD
Canterbury Christ Church University,
School of Creative Arts and Industries, Cyprus
Natalia Roe
Member of the Board,
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Students' Union President, Ireland
Paola Savvidou
DMA
Wellness Program Manager & Lecturer IV,
University of Michigan, US
Karolina Sawicka
PhD candidate
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
Andrea Schiavio
PhD
Lecturer
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
University of York, UK
https://www.york.ac.uk/arts-creative-technologies/people/andrea-schiavio/
Sarah Schmalenberger
PhD
Professor of Horn and Musicology,
University of St Thomas, US
https://cas.stthomas.edu/departments/faculty/sarah-schmalenberger/
Lori Şen
DMA, M.Ed., Assistant Professor of Vocal Pedagogy, Shenandoah University, US, &
Voice Faculty, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, US
June Tan Sheren
MBBS, MMed Family Medicine, MSc Performing Arts Medicine
Consulting Physician, The Musicians Clinic @ YST
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore
Family and Performing Arts Physician, Tucker Medical
Haruka Shoda
Lecturer
Music Psychology, Performance Science
Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
Noam Sivan
PhD
Professor of Piano Improvisation,
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany
Lucy Smith
DMA
Professional Doctorate Student in Sports Psychology, UK
Freelance Horn Player
Adam Spira
PhD
Professor,
Department of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, US
László Stachó
PhD Habil.
Lecturer and Research Fellow
Liszt Academy of Music, Hungary
https://uni.lisztacademy.hu/teaching-staff/stacho-laszlo-1310
Emlyn Stam
Ann Shoebridge
DPT
Alexander Technique teacher with expertise in musicians’ health, University of Melbourne, Australia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ann-shoebridge-prof-doc-physiotherapy-a9706b8/
Suze Steemers
Project Leader Education & Innovation
PhD Student
Codarts Rotterdam, University of the Arts
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1501237/overview
Marita Stryker
DMA, PAVA-RV
Assistant Professor of Music, Contemporary Voice, Musical Theatre; Director of Musical Theater
St. Olaf College, US
Janine Stubbe
PhD
Professor of Arts & Wellbeing
Codarts Rotterdam (University of the Arts), and
Erasmus University, Department of Arts and Culture Studies,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yu-Huei Su
Ed.D
Professor of Music Department
College of Arts, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
https://music.site.nthu.edu.tw/p/404-1113-21802.php?Lang=zh-tw
Stefan Sunandan Honisch
PhD, Education; BMus (Piano); MMus (Piano); MMus (Composition)
Co-Director, Facilitating Anti-Ableist Remote Music Making (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant)
Sessional Lecturer and Honorary Research Associate, Department of Theatre and Film, Scholar-In-Residence, St. John’s College, University of British Columbia, Canada
Akiho Suzuki
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hannover, Germany
Jirayu Techamanapong
PhD Student,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Iulia Toma
MD, PhD
Lecturer
Faculty of Music and Theatre, West University of Timișoara,
Municipal Emergency Clinical Hospital Timisoara
Center for Music & Transdisciplinary Research
Romania
Alexandra
Turk-Espitalier
PhD
Assistant Professor of Musicians' Health
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
https://www.mdw.ac.at/mrm/iasbs/science-and-research/
Laura Vasilyeva
PhD
Associate Professor of Musicology
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, US
Ana Vernia-Carrasco Mercedes
International Society for Music Education Board,
Jaume University, Spain
Sinead Walsh
Chair, Conservatoires UK Student Network
Suzanne Wijsman
DMA
Associate Professor
Conservatorium of Music
The University of Western Australia
https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/suzanne-wijsman
Aaron Williamon
PhD, FHEA, FRSA, HonRCM
Professor of Performance Science
Head of Centre for Performance Science
Royal College of Music, UK
Brenda Wristen
PhD
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy
Glenn Korff School of Music
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US
Jennifer Marie Yang
MD
Attending Physician
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Philippine General Hospital
University of the Philippines Manila
Michiko Yoshie
PhD
Senior Researcher
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Bryan Young
Board Chair
Chamber Music America
Peabody Institute
Johns Hopkins University, US