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Kathleen Murphy
Director of Music Therapy Kathleen Murphy was joined by music therapy faculty, alumni, and students at the 11th Nordic Music Therapy Conference held in Aalborg, Denmark in June 2024. Murphy co-presented a roundtable presentation titled "Music Therapy, Spirituality, and Substance Use" with Jonah Pomerantz '24g and Jorg Fachner of the Cambridge Institute for Music & Research at Anglia Ruskin University.
Along with Murphy, current music therapy graduate student student Jared Weinstock is a co-author of the study "Music, Addiction, Recurrence & Recovery," which was presented at the conference's research poster session.
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Alex Peh
Associate Professor Alex Peh debuted "Sky Islands"—a piece he'd been working on for the better part of a year with percussionist and 2018 Davenport Resident for New American Music Susie Ibarra—at the Asia Society in New York City in July 2024. Peh, on piano, performed the piece with an eight-piece ensemble which included Claire Chase on flute, Ibarra and Levy Lorenzo on percussion, and the four-member Bergamot Quartet (which comprises violinists Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violist Amy Tan, and cellist Irène Han). See a video of the group rehearsing "Sky Islands" in advance of the world premiere on Asia Society's YouTube page.
Also this past summer, Peh traveled to Greece with a group of New Paltz music students, where great memories—and beautiful music—were made.
