I knew at a very young age that music would be my life. A piano was given to me so I could start piano lessons and I had a wonderful teacher who opened the door to my life’s work. This lead to my getting a degree in music at the University of Bridgeport with more wonderful teachers and then on to graduate work at Teacher’s College at Columbia University where I studied piano teaching disciplines with Robert Pace and jazz with Bert Konowitz. At The New School for Social Research, I studied the Anatomy and Physiology of Voice Production with William Zerffi. All of this study inspired me to go on to teaching (I feel …My true calling). In addition to private piano instruction, I have worked in numerous school systems, both public and private, encompassing all walks of life, teaching a multi-disciplined music program.
In order to expand further, I received further training: Guided Imagery and Music at the Institute for Consciousness and Music with Helen Bonney, author of “Music and Your Mind,” curative aspects of breadth and tone at the Institute for Music, Health and Education with Don Campbell, author of “The Mozart Effect,” and training in improvisation at Music for People under David Darling. I also studied the Carl Orff method of music study and Zoltan Kodaly philosophy of music teaching.
I have participated in numerous workshops and conferences with the leading pioneers in the field of music and sound healing. In addition, I have spent the last twenty five years in consciousness development under Margaret Gillooly, spiritual counselor. I have dedicated my life to music and sound as being tools to lead us back to that center within (our originality) so we can live a more creative, fulfilling and peaceful life.
“Music will someday become a powerful and acknowledged therapeutic.”
– H. R. Haweis