Music Conservatory of Westchester • Faculty

Douglas Bruce Johnson (Oakland CA, 1949- ) is a composer and music therapist, currently based in Hartford, CT. He earned the Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He is an emeritus member of the music faculty at Trinity College, Hartford, where he taught from 1988 to 2009. From 2006-2010, he studied music therapy at New York University. He did fieldwork at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Creative Music Therapy in 2006-07, and interned at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function at Beth Abraham Hospital Bronx, NY in 2009-10.

In music therapy, Johnson takes an interactive approach to music, in a variety of restorative and healing contexts. He believes in the creative potential of every human being, at every stage of life. His compositions explore the emotional connectedness that we can celebrate in music. Performances of his work have been heard on three continents, and recorded on Zimbel (USA) and on BITMusik (Germany).

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Conservatory faculty are all highly skilled and experienced teachers. Teachers are assigned to maximize the learning experience of each student taking into account the students musical interests and goals, age and scheduling needs.

"I am very happy and proud of Jun Luke Foster’s and Benjamin Boventer’s achievements. I taught Jun Luke for 12 years and his acceptance to Juilliard School of Music is a great sign of his musical maturity and accomplishment. He was also accepted to Harvard and Yale. Benjamin was with me for five years. He won a prestigious $40,000 scholarship from Skidmore College for music studies. He was the only pianist in that competition who received this award. He was also accepted at Tufts University. It is very satisfying to know that our students continue to achieve such success." —Svetlana Gorokovich, MCW Faculty

Conservatory faculty are all highly skilled and experienced teachers. Teachers are assigned to maximize the learning experience of each student taking into account the students musical interests and goals, age and scheduling needs.

"I am very happy and proud of Jun Luke Foster’s and Benjamin Boventer’s achievements. I taught
Jun Luke for 12 years and his acceptance to Juilliard School of Music is a great sign of his musical maturity and accomplishment. He was also accepted to Harvard and Yale. Benjamin was with me for five years. He won a prestigious $40,000 scholarship from Skidmore College for music studies. He was the only pianist in that competition who received this award. He was also accepted at Tufts University. It is very satisfying to know that our students continue to achieve such success."
—Svetlana Gorokovich, MCW Faculty

douglas bruce johnson , MA, MT-BC
music therapy

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