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MUSIC EDUCATION & MUSIC THERAPY EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
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Life Skills Preschools & Day School: Queens, NY & Bronx, NY |
2006 - present
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Village Adult Day Health Centers: New York, NY |
2006 - present
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JASA Senior Centers: Brooklyn, NY & New York, NY |
2005 - present
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| Music Gives Life - Show Stoppers: New York, NY |
2004 - present
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Music Therapy Private Practice: New York, NY |
1990 - present
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Our Lady Of Mercy Medical Center - Inpatient Psychiatric: Bronx, NY |
2005 - 2006
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| Creative Arts for Children: New York, NY & Brooklyn, NY |
2005
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| The Caring Community: New York, NY |
2000-2004 |
| First Presbyterian Church Nursery School: New York, NY |
2000-2004
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| The Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center: New York, NY |
1992-2000
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| Manhattanville Nursing Care Center: Bronx, NY |
1990-1992
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| Association For Children With Retarded Mental Development: Brooklyn, NY |
1989-1990
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| Public Schools: New York, NY |
1985-1990
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| EDUCATION & LICENSING:
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| Creative Arts Therapist - License Number 000962: NYS Education Department
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| Certified Music Therapist: American Music Therapy Association
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| Masters Degree in Music Therapy: New York University
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| Bachelor of Music in Performance: University of Toronto / Graduate Opera Training
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| Professional Level Acting and Production: School for Film and Television
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| Screen Writing: New York University Film School
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| Pre-College Music: Juilliard School of Music
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| Pre-College Music/Drama/Dance: Interlochen Arts Academy and Camp
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 For over twenty years, Certified Music Therapist CHRISTINA BRITTON CONROY has worked with children, adults, elders, their families, and caregivers. She has helped frustrated, unhappy individuals deal with physical and emotional loss caused by birth defects, age-related diseases, accidents, and self-abuse. Christina is the Founder and Executive Director of MUSIC GIVES LIFE. Most of her musical Show Stoppers, ages 65-96 with an average age of 84, never touched a musical instrument, or sang into a microphone before joining Christina’s program. December 2009, NY1 TV NEWS named them NYers Of The Week. Her book, I WANT TO GO TO LITHUANIA or HOW TO HAVE FUN WITH YOUR AGING PARENTS is available at info@musicgiveslife.com.
Christina's first novel,
ONE MAN'S MUSIC is available at book stores and www.Amazon.com. - To view publisher's book trailer, click
"here."
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As a performer, Christina began working professionally at the age of seven, appearing in television commercials. She spent fifteen years touring the globe singing operas, operettas, and musicals, has soloed with orchestras, oratorio societies, at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, and folk venues, accompanying herself on the guitar and Irish Harp. Her theatrical credits include: ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, directed by Harold Prince, with Rock Hudson, Imogene Coca, and Judy Kaye; THE WOMEN with Anita Gillette, Dody Goodman, Julie Newmar, Virginia Graham, Jane Kean, and Margaux Hemingway; A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC with John McMartin and Barbara Barry; and the original Actors Studio production of LET 'EM ROT by Cy Coleman, directed by Morton DaCosta.
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