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PRESENTER BIO: 

Nathan Mensah, MA, MT-BC, is a Board-Certified Music Therapist at Yale New Haven Hospital where he serves patients and families on all of the Pediatric units. He also provides music therapy services through Hartford Healthcare for teens and adults with mental health and substance use disorders. He currently teaches at Southern Connecticut State University through the Music Therapy Program and at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College through the Music & Theatre Department. In his spare time, Nate enjoys singing in musicals and operas, directing choirs, playing in rock bands and orchestras, writing songs for musical projects, and playing video games! 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: 

As we serve a wide variety of clients and patients in our field, learning to broaden our musicianship allows us to approach a higher level of musical proficiency ot help benefit those who we serve. In this workshop, we will learn how to “spice up” our improvisation by incorporating different genres and stylistic playing into our music-making. If you are finding improvisation to be too daunting and overwhelming, or if you’ve been stuck wondering how to find new ideas for your music-making, I hope you find this workshop useful! 

Note. A certificate of completion can be supplied at attendees request after the workshop.