Playing Healthy: Avoid/Heal Injury

JULIE LYONN LIEBERMAN is the author of one of the first music medicine books in the world, You Are Your instrument (1991), now in its fifth edition and available as a digital book. She has also authored four spin-off DVDs: The Violin in Motion, Violin and Viola Ergonomics: Determine the Optimum Playing Position and Support for Your Body-Type; The Instrumentalists’ Guide to Fitness, Health, and Musicianship; and The Vocalists’ Guide to Fitness, Health, and Musicianship.

She has presented Playing Healthy clinics throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Scotland, and France. Sites have included The Starling-Delay Symposium at Juilliard, National String Workshop, International String Workshop, Eastman Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Berklee College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, numerous colleges and universities, the European String Teachers Association, as well as for American String Teachers Associations’ and National Association for Music Educations’ state conferences, among others.