What others are saying

Brian Pertl, Ethnomusicologist and Dean of Lawrence University Conservatory:

“I’m the Dean of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where Samantha George teaches. I started out by listening to your interview with her and now I’m working my way through the rest!

This is fantastic. I am passionate about musician health and wellness. I became dean of the Conservatory in 2008 and immediately started an all-out effort to make health and wellness a top priority. We are focused on 4 main areas: injury prevention, hearing loss prevention, physical fitness, and stress management.

We have started to bring in PTs weekly for quick drop in assessments for students and faculty, added icepacks, provided free hearing assessments, low-cost musicians earplugs, yoga classes,replaced all the chairs in the Conservatory, and have made a commitment to elevate the status of health and wellness issues starting from the dean’s office.

I greatly appreciate what you are doing and plan to add links to your podcasts from our Conservatory Health and Wellness site. “