* Workshop – receptive music therapy
TUESDAY 17.12.2024/ 10.00 – 12.30

Receptive music therapy focuses on actively listening to music. After a phase of attunement, music is played to the participants that can have a physical and/or psychological effect on them. It is assumed that music can evoke subjectively significant memories and associations. The therapeutic processes are initiated here by, for example, talking about the feelings, body perceptions and visual images that have arisen after listening to the music together.

* Lecture on music therapy
WEDNESDAY 18.12.2024/ 18.30

In the lecture on music therapy, basic concepts, theory and new areas of research are presented.

Music can overcome illness and pain, it helps overcome states of suffering, and it often makes us forget the suffering. It can make us cry, make us perform at our best in sports, it calms us down, makes us happy or anxious. There’s just one thing music never does: it never leaves us cold. The power of music also benefits music therapy. In the music therapy setting, active playing, listening to music or even the voice are used, depending on the objective. Their goals are to relieve or eliminate symptoms, change behaviors and attitudes that require treatment, and promote, maintain, or restore health.

BIO
Mag. Johanna Maria Zachhuber, MMA is a singer, music therapist and singing teacher. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the Music and Art Private University Vienna. In addition to her work as a concert and opera singer (Salzburg Festival, Bayreuth Festival, Volkstheater Vienna, Neue Oper Vienna, Kammeroper Vienna, Konzerthaus Vienna, Palace of Arts, Budapest), she teaches singing and has been a project assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 2020 Art Vienna at the Vienna Center for Music Therapy Research and at the Vienna General Hospital. Among other things, she is dedicated to researching music therapeutic vocal interventions on scleroderma and cystic fibrosis patients. The concept of vocal intervention combines music therapy and singing pedagogical approaches with the aim of being able to individually address both psychological and physical aspects of the illness. Significant improvements were demonstrated both in catamnestic interviews with the patients and in numerous functional tests.