who we are

Healing the self
EILEEN HADIDIAN

Eileen Hadidian is a professional recorder and baroque flute player with forty years playing experience. She is founder and artistic director of Healing Muses, a non-profit organization which brings soothing music to Bay Area medical centers. Her work with healing music grew out of her own cancer experience. She used music for her own healing, and began to play for other cancer patients, exploring ways in which music can be used to soothe critically and chronically ill people.

• Degrees in music including a Doctorate in Early Music from Stanford University and a B.A. from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon)

• 30 years teaching experience from college, community school and adult workshop settings (Mills College, Albany Adult School, American Recorder Society workshops)

• Director of Hausmusik concert series

• 10 years playing experience in medical centers

• Five CDs on the Healing Muses label

• Music publications with C.F. Peters, Indiana University Press, Cambridge University Press, Dovehouse and Tree Editions.

• Articles and interviews about healing music in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Physicians, the San Francisco Medical Society Journal, Early Music America and The American Recorder.

• Work as a breast cancer peer support volunteer, counseling cancer patients, helping them navigate the medical system and become informed and pro-active in their care.

• Albany Woman of the Year for 2010, named by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner.

Learn more about Eileen here.

Read Eileen's thoughts about music and healing at blog.healingmuses.org


	Experience matters MAUREEN BRENNAN Maureen Brennan has played harp for 30 years in hospitals and senior care facilities. Experience matters. She performed for fifteen years with Bread and Roses, bringing music to those in institutional settings, and also headed the Bay Area Folk Harp Society’s involvement with the Planetree healing program at CA Pacific Medical Center. She has performed 10 years with the Healing Muses, in the ICU, CCU, outpatient labs, pre-op areas, cancer treatment areas, as well as for nursing and healing workshops, meditations, and hospice work. Intermixed with these programs: • 18 years of harp performance on cruise ships in Alaska and Tahiti, • Touring across the US and Canada with a variety of ensembles • Charter member of Wake the Dead, the Celtic All-Star Grateful Dead band • 10 years teaching a variety of harp workshops across the U.S./30 years private teaching • 30 years performing at festivals and Scottish Games • 12 CD recordings including the renowned Harpestry • 35 years of hospital laboratory analysis at a variety of Bay Area acute care hospitals Learn more about Maureen here. Read Maureen's reflections about performing healing music at blog.healingmuses.org
	Comfort the soul PATRICE HAAN • Canadian Patrice Haan is increasingly being recognized for her songwriting and poetry. She has just completed Bluest Blue, her second album of original songs for harp, piano, voice and other instruments. • Patrice is well known in the Bay area for her sultry and seductive vocal performances with Tony Marcus in the Oakland-based jazz ensemble Leftover Dreams, which has released two recordings. • Patrice brings over 20 years of experience in public speaking, teaching, facilitating groups and serving on boards, as varied as Quaker meetings and the Bay Area Folk Harp Society, to Healing Muses, which she joined in 2004. • She has pursued extensive studies in herbal medicine, garden design, Classical studies, archaeology, ritual and theology, educational support for nutritional and environmental health disorders, and 25 years of eldercare and palliative support. • Through formal, familial, and community studies Patrice has an eclectic and catholic education in classical and traditional music. In addition, she has composed, sung or played for numerous wide-ranging projects and recordings. www.patricehaan.com Learn more about Patrice here. Read Patrice's ongoing thoughts about her work at blog.healingmuses.org
	Cross-cultural healing DIANA ROWAN • Born in Ireland, studied on the East Coast, in Europe & Middle East before settling in Berkeley, California. BA in Women's Health and Master of Music degrees; currently pursuing PhD in harp composition • Has taught music to advanced level for more than 20 years • Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor, volunteered for Berkeley Free Clinic, worked hotline and shelter of Oakland's A Safe Place, taught piano at SF's Harrison House, was regular performer at Children's Hospital Oakland • Resident harpist for Reclaiming's Spiral Dance, enjoys collaborations with Deepak Ram, San Francisco Renaissance Voices, California Revels, among many others • Performs, records and presents worldwide: three solo CDs Further info: www.dianarowan.com Learn more about Diana here. Read about Diana's experiences and reflections about her work at blog.healingmuses.org
	To schedule Music for Healing in your health care facility or home, contact: Suzanne Siebert, Board President 510.843.2425 suzannesiebert@gmail.com Patrice Haan Muse 510.534.9250 patrice@tuxedorecords.com Mailing address: Healing Muses 1185 Solano Avenue, PMB #153 Albany, CA 94706 Email: healingmuses@comcast.net *Donate Now!* By mail, . Or click on the PayPal button below: