50th Anniversary Symposium of the Music Therapy Program

Check-In 1 – 2 p.m.

Ohrstrom-Bryant Theatre Lobby

Welcome 2 – 2:15 p.m. (Registration Needed)

Dr. Jeff Marlatt, interim Dean, Shenandoah Conservatory

Dr. Tony Meadows, Director of Music Therapy

Ruebush Hall 128

Keynote 2:15 – 3 p.m. (Registration Needed)

Dr. Kerry Devlin ’18, LPMT, MT-BC – Senior Music Therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine (pictured right)

Advancing Medical Music Therapy Practice: New Horizons in Neurocritcal Care

Can’t be in person. Join us on Zoom at https://su.zoom.us/j/93535811145

Breakout Session 3 – 5 p.m.

• The Development of Music Therapy in the Philippines with Asst. Prof. Danielle Zamar- Alcantara ’15, RN, MM, MT-BC, Assistant Professor, Silliman University
• Learning Through Doing: Nine Lessons from a New Music Therapist in Pediatric Intensive Care with Jamie Shegogue ’23, LPMT, MT-BC, NICU-MT, Critical Care Music Therapist, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
• Harmful Events Reported by Music Therapists in their Everyday Clinical Practice with Valerie Jackson ’12, ’16, ’19, MMT, MT-BC, Director of Expressive Therapies, The Commonwealth Center for Children & Adolescents
• Transitioning to Professional Life: New Professionals Panel with Kalysta Bryant ’23, MT-BC, Cara Lowrey ’22, MT-BC, Jamie Shengogue ’23, LPMT, MT-BC, NICU-MT, Ali Deckard ’24, MT-BC
• Race and #RealTalk: Reckoning with the Unresolved with Shana Oshiro ’20, MMT, MT-BC, Executive Director, Halo Inc.

Alumni Social/Mixer 5 – 6 p.m. (Registration Needed)

Ruebush Hall 128

Dinner on your own

Evening Event: Falstaff

Main Stage Opera provides audiences with the full opera experience! Step into a world of wit, charm and exuberance with Giuseppe Verdi’s final masterpiece, Falstaff. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, this comic opera in three acts — directed by Ella Marchment — promises a night of operatic brilliance and unparalleled entertainment.

Tickets purchased through the SU Box Office

Fireside Chat 10:30 a.m. – Noon

Reflections on the development of the music therapy program at Shenandoah University (Registration Needed)

Speakers include Dr. Mike Rohrbacher, Mrs. Sue Rohrbacher, Dr. Anne Lipe, Dr. Daniel Tague, Dr. Bronwen Landless, Dr. Hakeem Leonard. Moderated by Dr. Tony Meadows.

Can’t be in person. Join us on Zoom at https://su.zoom.us/j/94170729625

Lunch on your own

Chimer’s Concert 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. (Registration Needed) 

Armstrong Concert Hall

Reception and Remarks 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. (Registration Needed)

Armstrong Concert Hall Courtyard

Evening Event: Everybody

Directed by Kirsten Trump, this humorous and contemporary spin on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman delves into the timeless allegory of death and the fate of the human soul, while also exploring the outrageous musings of twenty-first-century life.

Tickets purchased through the SU Box Office