Performance Therapy Symposium

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Event Dates
Zero Gravity Room
1260 Boylston Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States

Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) presents the Performance Therapy Symposium.

This all-day event will feature a special panel discussion and more hosted by Patricia Zarate, BGJI outreach coordinator, and Danilo Pérez, BGJI artistic director. Please refer to the detailed schedule below:

9:00 a.m. 

National and International Outreach Programs

Witness Matlou, post-master fellow, Berklee Global Jazz Institute

Edmar Colon, alumnus, Berklee Global Jazz Institute                                                                                                            

10:00 a.m. 

The Therapeutic Aspects of Music

Special guest: Kathleen Howland, PhD, professor of music therapy, Berklee College of Music

 

11:00 a.m.  

History of Music as a Tool for Social Change

Patricia Zarate, outreach coordinator, Berklee Global Jazz Institute

Danilo Perez, artistic director, Berklee Global Jazz Institute

 

12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

 

1:00 p.m.

Music, Nature and Ecology 

Special guest: Brian Farrell, PhD, director, David Rockefeller Center For Latin American Studies; professor of biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

 

2:00 p.m. 

Interconnective Learning

Special guest Anthony Scibilia, assistant professor, Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music

 

3:00 p.m.

Making Social Change through Music in Present Time

Special guest: saxophonist, composer, and educator Ed Harlow's Solar Jazz Festival