Maryville Music Therapy

02/06/2026

Attention all bachelor-level music therapists!! Check out the infographic below for all the phenomenal reasons to obtain your graduate degree from Maryville University's 100% Virtual Master of Music Therapy Program!

Want to learn even more. Just click on this link: https://www.maryville.edu/masters/music-therapy/

07/01/2024

Check out Maryville University-Kids Rock Cancer's Lead Music Therapist, Alison Cole, on Snap Shot!

A diagnosis of cancer is not good for anyone and especially a child!!! Join me as Alison J. Cole, Lead Music Therapist for the Kid Cancer Rocks program at M...

02/02/2024

08/27/2023

We are looking forward to the start of the Fall 2023 semester on Monday! Go Saints!

02/20/2023

Creative Music Making 2023 with the St. Louis Arc and St. Louis Symphony was such a wonderful experience and we are so honored to be able to collaborate with these two amazing groups every year!

01/17/2023

Hello everyone! We are back after break on the first day of spring semester, and hope you all had a good holiday season! We have some great things in the works for this semester so be sure to check out our page regularly for MU Music Therapy Program event news and updates!

Upcoming Events: Creative Music Making February 13th-15th (More details and info coming soon!)

11/13/2022

IMPORTANT message: Maryville University Hillel is privileged to present Rachel Miller, a survivor of the Holocaust, to share her story of courage and hope in a time of deepest horror and hardship.

Students, staff, and guests may attend in-person in the Auditorium, where Miller, a Chesterfield resident, will speak in person, or join through Zoom. Faculty members are also invited to bring their classes to the presentation.

ALL guests and community members are welcome and encouraged to attend via Zoom. In the words of a past presenter, "We know that today's generation will be the last to hear first-hand accounts of that dark time in our history."

Please join us for this increasingly rare and important experience on November 16 at 5:00 PM. No RSVP is required to attend in-person; to join online, register at bit.ly/maryvillehillelzoom22

10/31/2022

For some upcoming posts we'll be looking into a few different populations that music therapists often work with and the impact that music therapy has in the setting! Comment below on this post if there is a specific population/setting you'd like us to cover in some of our future posts!
Today's post features Music Therapy in the mental health setting. The article linked below is from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and includes personal accounts of the impact of music therapy in the setting by MT-BC, LPMT, and MM Molly Warren.

Research shows the benefits of music therapy for various mental health conditions, including depression, trauma, and schizophrenia (to name a few). Learn more about this powerful form of therapy here.

10/20/2022

Today's post features Maryville's Associate Director of Music Therapy Dr. Kwoun! Dr. Kwoun has been teaching at Maryville for more than 15 years and teaches many different courses in the Music Therapy Program! Here is a link to an article published by Maryville featuring Dr. Kwoun!

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10/17/2022

Hello all, we're back with a course registration post for today. It's week 9 of the semester this week and with Spring Semester registration approaching in just a few weeks, now is a good reminder for anyone wanting to register for music therapy courses for the spring 2023 semester to take a look at course requirements and to get in touch with faculty advisors. Maybe you yourself are a current Maryville music therapy undergraduate student, or you might be interested in registering for undergraduate or graduate courses for the spring semester. Here are a few links to the Maryville website that include information about our Undergraduate and Master's in Music Therapy Programs.
https://www.maryville.edu/hp/master-of-music-therapy/ https://catalog.maryville.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=22&poid=3969

The Maryville Music Therapy program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and is approved by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). The four-and-one-half year program culminates in a six-month internship under the supervision of a board-certified music therapis...