Dr.
Harvey is internationally known as an authority in music
for special needs individuals, music and the brain, music
and health, and music and learning, and has provided training
and spoken at conferences in 23 countries, as well as
throughout the United States. As Director and Founder
of MUSIC FOR HEALTH SERVICES, Dr. Harvey has a diverse
and rich background in teaching, research and clinical
applications of music as a healing art.
Dr. Harvey has just retired from the University of Hawaii,
and moved from Hawaii to Florida. In addition to teaching
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the past sixteen
years, he also provided weekly Therapeutic Music sessions
for Leahi Hospital, bi-weekly for Maluhia Hospital, and
weekly music therapy sessions at Hawaii Kai Retirement
Community.
Music as Therapy
Dr.
Harvey’s interest in and utilization of the therapeutic
functions of music has been fueled by his passion for
helping persons with disabilities. For over forty years
he has worked with special needs individuals in schools,
institutions, and privately and has consistently provided
therapeutic music services to hospitals, nursing homes,
and service organizations (such as Parkinson’s Association,
Cancer Society, Multiple Schlerosis Assoc., Alzheimer’s
Assoc., DD and DOH, Medical Societies, Health Care Organizations
– both traditional and CAM, and AARP). His extensive
experience working with music therapists, medical organizations
and individuals, sound healers and researchers has resulted
in him developing Music As Therapy courses, which have
been taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Kapiolani
Community College. In addition professional organizations
such as HMSA and hospitals such as Castle and Queens in
Hawaii invited him to provide both professional and public
training programs to acquaint them with the scientific
and practical understanding of the Why’s, What’s,
and How’s of Music As Therapy.
Dr. Harvey is available to serve as a consultant or develop
courses in this field.
MUSICIAN
Church
Music Experience
Dr.
Harvey has extensive experience as a Church Musician,
most recently serving as Director of Music & Worship
at Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church in Honolulu, where
he was organist and pianist as well as director of Calvary
Choir, and co-director of Performing Arts at Calvary for
over ten years. He has served churches of a variety of
denominations in Hawaii, Kentucky, Rhode Island, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maine and New Brunswick-Canada during his
fifty years of music ministry. Throughout his career he
was on the faculty of several Christian colleges. Although
music has been the focus of most of his church ministry
services, he is also an ordained minister and as such
has officiated at weddings and funerals, and served as
preacher and counselor when needed.
Accomplished Musician and Recording Artist
Dr.
Harvey is featured on a 7-show video series, "Music
and the Brain", and has released a
2-CD set of "Music for Health and Wellness".
In 2003 he also produced a recording for Persons with
Alzheimers and their Caregivers, "Island
Sounds Healing Heart", a carefully
arranged selection of Hawaiian songs with a heartbeat.
Dr. Harvey's latest recording released
in October 2005, "Euphonium for Euphemia"
as a tribute to his Mother who died at age 95 in October
2005.
AUTHOR
Dr.
Harvey co-authored a book and CD , "Learn
with the Classics" that was released
in 1999. He also created an ESL book, "Mina's
Star", which was released in 2003 with
an accompanying recording "Singing The
Word Of Christmas".
Dr. Harvey's most recent book, "A Journey
of Explanation, A Roadmap to Understanding Muaic and the
Brain" was released in January 2004
as a compilation of articles Dr. Harvey has authored related
to his research on music and the brain. He has published
many articles, authored chapters in several books, and
co-authored several training manuals in music for special
needs individuals.
RESEARCHER
Neuromusicological
Research
Dr.
Harvey has been active in research throughout his academic
career. His primary interest is in neuromusicological
research. He developed a Response-to-Music Inventory and
has published “Understanding The Brain’s Response
To Music” as well as developing a video series based
on this concept. While at the U. of Louisville School
of Medicine he did research on music and memory in geriatrics.
Working with a cardiologist he researched the effect of
heartbeat and music on cardiac patients and was invited
to present at the International Society of Music in Medicine
Symposium in Germany in 2004. His applied research with
educational and therapeutic applications on music with
special needs individuals has resulted in invitations
for him to provide training throughout the world for VSAarts
International. He has written and published many articles
related to music and the
brain, music and medicine, and music as therapy.
Music
and Aging Research
Dr.
Harvey's recent research focus has been with music and
aging with the creation of a CD for individuals with Alzheimers
syndrome. His "Music for Health and Wellness"
CDs – “Bach for the Morning”
and “Handel for the Evening” were
produced as a result of research on finding music to facilitate
healthier transitions from sleep to awake states in aged
individuals, and music for the “Sundowner’s Effect” .
His ongoing research on Music As Therapy is expected to
be published in a forthcoming book.
EDUCATOR
Music Educator
Dr.
Harvey was associated with the University of Hawaii at
Manoa in Music Education for almost two decades, retired
in May, 2006, but will continue to teach online courses:
Psychology of Music, History & Philosophy
of Music Education, and Music
As Therapy. He is available to develop and
teach Music As Therapy courses
for other schools.
Before moving to Hawaii in 1991, Dr. Harvey was on the
faculty of Eastern Kentucky University for 17 years as
Professor of Music Education, He was also on the faculty
of the University of Louisville School of Medicine for
five years assisting in the development of a Program for
Arts in Medicine.
Dr. Harvey's broad background in music education has included
experience as a concert and marching band director, orchestra
conductor, general and special education music education
teacher. Dr. Harvey continues to be active as a speaker
and consultant in the fields of Music and Education. He
has served as President of the Hawaii Music Educators
Association, and until recently served as Vice President
of VSAarts of Hawaii-Pacific, and continues to serve as
Vice President of Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Inc. (listed
below) and as Vice President of I.C. Fine Arts Institute
in Trinidad, CA (www.icfineartsin.org).
Dr. Harvey is internationally known as an authority in
music for special needs individuals, music and the brain,
music and health, and music and learning, and has provided
training and spoken at conferences in 23 countries, as
well as throughout the United States.
OTHER
Sounding Joy Music Therapy Inc.
Dr. Harvey is a Vice President of Sounding Joy Music Therapy Inc. (www.soundingjoymt.org.) Their mission is to enhance public awareness of benefits of music therapy, to increase accessibility to music therapy services, and to advance music therapy research, in order to improve quality of life through therapeutic uses of music in the State of Hawaii.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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