For patients on the Central Coast, it often includes the soothing sounds of Brynn Albanese, a Certified Music Practitioner who uses music to enhance the recovery of patients and also improve the well-being of everyone in the facilities where she plays – health care workers included.
A successful concert violinist, Brynn felt a profound calling to use her musical talents for healing after witnessing the emotional toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. This led her to the Music for Healing and Transition Program (MHTP), where she learned to tailor her music to individual patient needs—calming anxiety, easing pain, and even aiding stroke recovery.
“I had a career playing for thousands and thousands of people in various ways,” she says of the considerable time she spent playing in auditoriums. “Little did I know I would be able to move into my role as a Certified Music Practitioner later on in life.”
Another thing that spurred on the change was Brynn’s love of “making people feel a certain way with my music,” she says.
Charting a new path
Brynn’s transition to becoming a Certified Music Practitioner shouldn't surprise those who know her. At 18, Albanese nearly chose a path implementing music as medicine, before ultimately opting to share her gifts with larger audiences, performing worldwide.
Once Albanese began to truly understand the nuances of using music as medicine, she discovered it was unlike performing in sold-out theaters.
"I have learned that playing music as a service, as opposed to playing a performance, is truly polar opposite,” she says. “I have been trained to use the intrinsic elements of music to meet an individual patient’s needs or condition, in-the-moment; meeting the patient where they are.”
According to the Music for Healing and Transition Program, music can have a wide-reaching impact on patients, with the potential to do things like decrease pain, lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, and stabilize heart rate.
Meet Brynn
of Pneuma Melodies
Brynn Albanese has celebrated a 38-year musical career as a Concert Violinist.
Brynn is also a Certified Music Practitioner & an End of Life Doula.
Message from Brynn:
"I am excited about changing the face of our local healthcare by enhancing "modern allopathic conventional medicine" with the "complementary care" of music by the bedside in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and memory care centers.
My Project, Pneuma Melodies, will be under the non-profit umbrella of Ecologistics.org
I will be addressing each facility in the never-ending mission of the "whole person" care plan to help and treat not only the body, but the mind and spirit. This will make for a faster healing process, less medications, and a more relaxed and efficient working environment for our medical heroes who are the doctors, nurses, techs and staff of these facilities.
I would like you to meet me now....Hello, I am Brynn Albanese, I am a Concert Violinist, a Certified Music Practitioner and End of Life Doula!"
TESTIMONIALS
Suzy Van B
If we could all be so lucky to be surrounded by your beautiful music as we transition on from this earth. Thank you for doing what you do. ❤️
Every time I have heard Brynn Albanese, whether at the Performing Arts Center, where she was concert master for many years, playing with Cafe' Musique in California (or in Europe) or with Classinova in San Luis Obispo County, I have been amazed, honored and uplifted. She has raised her skills and gifts to the highest levels of classical and folk music and is engaging in her enthusiasm. I do believe she can play music of any culture on the planet. She is "World-Class."
That was a remarkable performance. Thank you for sharing your talent. What a beautiful setting. Love the unique violin. Truly a wonderful educational experience.
Timothy M
Dale H
CONTACT BRYNN
CAMBRIA, CALIFORNIA
Tel. 123-456-7890
Fax. 123-456-7890
500 Terry Francois Street,
San Francisco, CA 94158