Category Archives: Pianists
Nancy Byl, Focal Dystonia Researcher
Nancy Byl is a physical therapist who cares for patients in the physical therapy clinic at UCSF Medical Center and administrative director of the Peter Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists. She has a special clinical interest in repetitive strain injury, chronic pain and focal hand dystonia as well as the neurological rehabilitation of patients [...]
Robert Rickover, Alexander Technique Teacher
Robert Rickover teaches the Alexander Technique in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada, working with individual students and with groups. He graduated from the School of Alexander Studies in London, England in 1981 where he also served on the faculty. He studied for over fifteen years with master Alexander teacher Marjorie Barstow and frequently assisted her [...]
Jamie Ridler, Creative Living Coach
Jamie Ridler MA CPCC is a professional certified coach and an expert in creative living. Through one-on-one coaching, workshops and online resources, she helps creative independent spirits align their lives with their deepest truths. Her background in the arts includes dance, theatre and the expressive arts and infuses her coaching at every turn. Her popular [...]
Melissa Hullman, Yoga Therapist
Violinist and yoga therapist Melissa Hullman’s Baltimore-based yoga therapy practice specializes in performance-injury recovery and prevention for musicians. Dedicated to helping her clients realize more of their innate potential through developing greater ease and presence in performance, she regularly appears as a guest clinician and gives private consultations to musicians from orchestras throughout the country. [...]
Susan Bruckner, Piano Teacher
Susan Bruckner is a pianist and teacher with degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the New School for Music Study founded by Frances Clark, and the San Francisco Conservatory. She has done extensive research on learning styles and brain research pertinent to musicians and is author of the book, The Whole Musician. She is [...]
Dr. Preeti Raghavan, Researcher
Preeti Raghavan, M.D., joined the faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 2002. Her clinical interests include the treatment of individuals with brain injury, and the rehabilitation of neurological and orthopedic disorders. Her area of specialty is the rehabilitation of motor control in the upper-extremity in [...]
Dr. Alice Brandfonbrener: Doctor, Researcher
Alice Brandfonbrener received her BA from Wellesley College and her MD from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Feinberg Medical College of Northwestern University as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has as served as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northwestern Music [...]
Tim Mueller, pianist
Pianist Timothy Mueller and his wife Kimberly moved to Madison, Wisconsin from New York City two years ago, just in time for the birth of their son Aidan. Since then Tim has started a piano studio on the west side of Madison, and has served as music and choir director at Lakeview Lutheran Church on [...]
Madeline Bruser, Piano Teacher
Pianist Madeline Bruser has performed as soloist with the San Francisco and Denver Symphony Orchestras. She has conducted seminars and workshops at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Southern California, the Music Academy of the West, the MedArt World Congress on Arts and Medicine, and college music departments and music [...]
