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Rita Antonia Abante Moats, MA, MT-BC or most commonly called “Rich,” has been a board-certified music therapist for 13 years. Rich has primarily worked in the medical setting since becoming a board-certified music therapist in the United States. Her initial passion was in pediatric music therapy - working with children diagnosed with cancer, other life limiting illnesses, as well as the neonatal intensive care unit. Since then, Rich has worked with children and adults in the hospital, both in individual and group settings, from Med-Surg, ICU, Neuro, Cardiac, Psych, and Rehab.
She currently serves as the Director for AdventHealth Central Florida Division’s Integrative & Creative Arts Therapy Program where she oversees 9 full-time board-certified music therapists and 1 art therapist. Rich is also the Clinical Training Director for their medical music therapy internship at AdventHealth, which is a national roster internship site of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). Rich has received additional designations in NICU-MT and Neurologic Music Therapy and is a regular presenter at the AMTA national conferences, the Orlando medical community, as well as international music therapy workshops.
Rich will be presenting at our annual conference for music therapists and music educators who work with kids, the Music For Kiddos Symposium, on November 12th, 2021. The title of her presentation: Clinical Musicianship: Bridging the Gap Between Repertoire and Basic Improvisation by Building Musical Integrity.
We interviewed Rich Abante moats on the Music For Kiddos Podcast, and here are some of the highlights:
“Musical integrity [means] that we're keeping the integrity or the wholeness of our musicianship and all that has led into who we are as musicians, in the way that we apply it in our clinical musical interactions.
That means different for every person. Our requirements as music therapists are described in these terms like “functional skills” and you have to learn these chords, but does that really describe all of our faculties as a musician? And, do we access that when we learn music for clinical purposes or when we interact or make music with other people?
There has to be an understanding of who am I and what do I bring in to this musical interaction.”
Tune in to episode 38 of the Music For Kiddos Podcast to listen to the full interview with Rich Abante Moats.
Mark your calendars on November 12th, 2021 for the Music For Kiddos Symposium!
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