50th Anniversary Symposium of the Music Therapy Program
Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26, 2025
Agenda
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 http://su.zoom.us/j/93535811145
Breakout Session 3 – 5 p.m.
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The Development of Music Therapy in the Philippines – Asst. Prof. Danielle Zamar- Alcantara, RN, MM, MT- BC
- Music Therapy in the Pediatric ICU – Jamie Shegogue ’23, MT-BC
- Transitioning to Professional Life: New Professionals Panel with Kalysta Bryant, MT-BC, Cara Lowrey, MT-BC, Jamie Shengogue, MT-BC, Ali Deckard, MT-BC
- More sessions coming soon
- More sessions coming soon
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 – 11:30 a.m.
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 http://su.zoom.us/j/94170729625
Lunch on your own
Chimer’s Concert 2 – 3 p.m. (Registration Needed)
Reception and Remarks – 3 – 4 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
Register for specific events at http://advancement.rdsy.net/music-therapy-alumni-weekend.
Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni & Constituent Relations at alums@rdsy.net or (540) 665-4511.