Author

Martha Summa-Chadwick, DMA

Martha Summa-Chadwick has achieved a national reputation as an educator, presenter, performer, and advocate for the cause of music in therapy. She has performed as piano and harpsichord soloist with orchestras across the country and served for twenty-six years on the faculty of the Cadek Conservatory of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee. For the past two decades, Dr. Summa-Chadwick has explored various ways to use music for therapeutic as well as aesthetic ends as the Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Music Therapy Gateway in Communication. She has given three TED talks and is a frequent guest speaker at both national and regional conferences, discussing the use of biomedical music techniques for challenged children. She has established a series of both chamber and solo concerts to help educate diverse audiences in an overview of biomedical music protocols and how music can be used in collaboration with improved neural learning patterns, and is also exploring how biomedical music protocols could be automated into software applications for persons with motor, speech, or cognition challenges. She is also an avid fiber artist who loves to weave and create quilts using intricate geometric patterns.