Confirmed Presenters

This page lists the speakers who have comitted to make presentations at this year's conference. As additional presenters sign up and provide details on their topics this page will be regularly updated and will link to detailed biographies and topic descriptions. Please check back regularly.

Don Campbell, composer, author, The Mozart Effect, Introduction to the Musical Brain, The Mozart Effect for Children and many others

Keynote:

Workshop:

David Hykes,

Keynote: Mind, Meditation, Sacred Music and Healing Workshop:

Pre-conference workshop:

Evening Event:

Tom Kenyon,

Keynote:

Workshop:

Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT,
psychologist, composer, recording artist, Amazonia Insight opera, Ah, The Healing Voice and others, coauthor, Music and the Human Process, Music in Human Adaptation, Transpersonal Consciousness and Music Therapy at the End of Life, voice culturist, studied raga singing and classical Indian music with Ali Akbar Khan, director, School of the Voice

Keynote:

Workshop:

Jill Purce,
pioneered the sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, I introduced Mongolian overtone chanting to the West, author, The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul

Keynote:

Workshop:

Post Conference 1: The Healing Voice Intensive

Post Conference 2: Ritual and Resonance: The Healing Voice

Christine Stevens, MA Music Therapy,
author, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles, creator, The Healing Drum Kit, consultant to Remo (the world’s largest drum company), trains health-care professionals in HealthRhythyms group drumming consultant, Percussive Arts Society, advisor, Drum Circle Facilitators Guild

Keynote:

Workshop:

Arthur Harvey, MM, DMA,
internationally known authority in music for special needs individuals, music and the brain, music and learning, music and health, past President, Hawaii Music Educators Association, featured on video series, Music and the Brain, author, Learn with the Classics and A Journey of Explanation: A Roadmap to Understanding Music and the Brain, coauthor, training manuals in music for special needs individuals, recording artist

Workshop:

Sharry Edwards,
Director, Sound Health Research Institute, author, Decloaking Pathogens with Low- Frequency Sound, researcher, Human BioAcoustics

Workshop:

John Reid,
acoustics engineer from England, inventor of the CymaScope, a 21st century electro-acoustics device, researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space, author, Egyptian Sonics

Workshop:

Onye Onyemaechi, MBA,
founder, Village Rhythms, Nigerian master drummer and dancer, spiritual advisor, recording artist, healer

Evening Event: The Village Rhythm Experience

Workshop: The Healing Rhythm: From Self-Discovery to Wellness

James D’Angelo, MMus, PhD Music Composition,
author, The Healing Power of the Human Voice, composer, Portraits of Krishna, pianist

Workshop:

Chris James,

Workshop:

Joel Andrews,

Workshop:

Evening Event:

Ellen Franklin, PhD,
CEO, Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, cocreator of Acutonics System Healing and Education, creating a new training program for Equine Acutonics

Workshop:

Donna Carey, PhD, LAc,
cofounder, Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, sound healer, Clinical Dean, Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, coauthor, Acutonics: There’s No Place Like Om, Sound Healing, Oriental Medicine and the Cosmic Mysteries and Acutonics: From Galaxies to Cells

Workshop:

Dorinne Davis, MA, CC-A, FAAA,
Educational and Rehabilitative Audiologist, founder, The Davis Center for Hearing, Speech and Learning, associate, BioAcoustics Research, certified practitioner in Berard Auditory Integration Training, Tomatis, Fast ForWord Language, The Listening Program, Read- Spell-Comprehend, Samonas, Interactive Metronome, Earobics, Lipreading, Aural Rehabilitation and other sound-based therapies, author, Sound Bodies Through Sound Therapy and Every Day A Miracle: Success Stories with Sound Therapy

Workshop:

Sita Jamieson,
musician, singer, recording artist, Presence: Chants of Sacred Power, has performed with Krishna Das, Ram Das and Baghavan Das

Morning Classes: Sound Healing and Chanting