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As Director of Music Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Monique Mead helps students prepare for professional life and create innovative career paths in music. Her curriculum is practical in nature, providing students with the skills, tools, and real-life experiences they need to succeed as professional musicians. Monique Mead's own rich and varied career is a testament to her enduring belief that music has the power to connect, heal, and uplift humanity. Whether performing concertos, engaging young audiences, or fostering wellbeing, Mead strives to create transformative musical experiences that connect people more deeply with themselves and others.

Inspired and mentored by Leonard Bernstein, Mead has been a lifelong activist for classical music as a violinist, educator and innovator. Since 1998, she has appeared regularly on German television and radio featuring her innovative youth concerts with prestigious German orchestras in Berlin, Munich, and Cologne. In the U.S. she has collaborated with the Pittsburgh Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Mainly Mozart, Orcas Island, Rockport Festival, among others. In addition to performing as a soloist and chamber musician, Mead currently serves as Artistic Director of the Rancho La Puerta Chamber Music Festival in Mexico; Executive Director of Olympic Strings Camp in Washington; Artistic Director of Azure Family Concerts Pittsburgh, and maintains a Sound Healing studio at the Awareness & Wellness Center in Pittsburgh.  Mead is the mother of two talented teens, and a lover of nature, yoga, and homegrown cuisine.

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A 90-minute reprieve from a world gone crazy

Pitt medical students study the healing power of sound with renowned CMU violinist

Where Music, Nature, and Flow Converge: The Unforgettable Chamber Music Week

Violinist Monique Mead expands her repertoire by creating sound baths

CMU research shows sound baths can reduce stress

Rancho La Puerta Chamber Music Festival

Associate Teaching Professor / Director of Music Entrepreneurship

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Chair of Carnegie Mellon University's Music Education, Music Entrepreneurship and Musicianship division Monique Mead explains sound frequencies can induce and maintain deep relaxation so that the body can heal itself.

CMU Experts: What If Sound Frequencies Could Help Us Heal?

This video shows the impact of 50 performances of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in 250 days, performed by Monique Mead to honor the "indomitable spirit within us" for Beethoven's 250th birthday celebration.

Beethoven in the Face of Adversity Documentary

‘This was my bouquet’: At Tree of Life, a violinist offers up music as a means to mourn

One year after completing a 50-concert tour of "Beethoven in the Face of Adversity," Monique speaks with Edgewood Symphony Board Chair, Natalie Kasievich about the irony of celebrating Beethoven's 250th birthday amidst a pandemic. This includes a rebroadcast of the first movement of the Beethoven Concerto from Carnegie Music Hall on Beethoven's birthday, 2019.

Beethoven Retrospective 2020

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and there are many ways to destress. But KDKA-TV's Alexandra Todd takes a look at one you may not have heard of -- sound baths.

The second concert in the CARNEGIE MELLON CHAMBER SERIES 2020-2021 SEASON: “ARTS UNIFIED” 

October 12, 2020 at 7:30 PM - Great Dames: Florence Price & Clara Schumann 

Performers: 
Monique Mead, violin 
Alexandra Thompson Lee, cello 
Sung-Im Kim, piano

Opening message: 
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Artistic Director of the Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series

Poem read by: 
Cheyenne Springette, undergraduate student, School of Drama 

View the full digital program for this concert: https://www.cmu.edu/cfa/music/concerts-events/digitalprograms.html 

The Carnegie Mellon University Chamber Series brings together members of the CMU Faculty and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for outstanding music making in an intimate space. Due to the pandemic, the 2020-2021 Chamber Series performances will be virtual only, livestreamed on the CMU School of Music YouTube Channel. 

The theme of the 2020-2021 Chamber Series is “Arts Unified.” Each performance will open with a text of a black author/activist read by a CMU student and will feature at least one musical work written by a black composer. 

To learn more about composer Florence Price visit: http://www.florenceprice.org 
To learn more about writer Toni Morrison visit: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/biographical/ 

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