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In Teaching the Whole Musician, Dr. Paola Savvidou supplies crucial, research-based guidelines for music teachers to integrate wellness education into lessons and classes. With engaging text, handy tables, illustrative figures, and practical recommendations, this important book equips educators to foster healthy, lifelong music making. * Gerald Klickstein, author, The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness * Teaching the Whole Musician is an inspiring contribution to the music world. With keen insight and genuine sensitivity, Savvidou offers a multi-dimensional approach to cultivating physical, mental, and occupational well-being for musicians. Packed with relevant and accessible information, this book will be a treasured resource for studio instructors. * Dr. Vanessa Cornett, author, The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance * Savvidou's book provides today's teachers a broad, comprehensive perspective of wellness that recognizes the importance of dealing with the 'whole person' that walks into our studios. It is an especially helpful and thorough resource to which studio teachers can turn for specific guidance on a broad and diverse range of practical topics. Especially notable is her identifying teachers as a student's 'first line of defense,' helping students through the many challenges impacting them today... This book deserves a prominent place in every musician's and music school's library. * Gail Berenson, Professor Emerita of Piano, Ohio University - Athens and Past President, Music Teachers National Association *

In Teaching the Whole Musician, Dr. Paola Savvidou supplies crucial, research-based guidelines for music teachers to integrate wellness education into lessons and classes. With engaging text, handy tables, illustrative figures, and practical recommendations, this important book equips educators to foster healthy, lifelong music making. -- Gerald Klickstein, author, The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness Teaching the Whole Musician is an inspiring contribution to the music world. With keen insight and genuine sensitivity, Savvidou offers a multi-dimensional approach to cultivating physical, mental, and occupational well-being for musicians. Packed with relevant and accessible information, this book will be a treasured resource for studio instructors. -- Dr. Vanessa Cornett, author, The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance Savvidou's book provides today's teachers a broad, comprehensive perspective of wellness that recognizes the importance of dealing with the 'whole person' that walks into our studios. It is an especially helpful and thorough resource to which studio teachers can turn for specific guidance on a broad and diverse range of practical topics. Especially notable is her identifying teachers as a student's 'first line of defense, ' helping students through the many challenges impacting them today... This book deserves a prominent place in every musician's and music school's library. -- Gail Berenson, Professor Emerita of Piano, Ohio University Athens and Past President, Music Teachers National Association

"""In Teaching the Whole Musician, Dr. Paola Savvidou supplies crucial, research-based guidelines for music teachers to integrate wellness education into lessons and classes. With engaging text, handy tables, illustrative figures, and practical recommendations, this important book equips educators to foster healthy, lifelong music making."" -- Gerald Klickstein, author, The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness ""Teaching the Whole Musician is an inspiring contribution to the music world. With keen insight and genuine sensitivity, Savvidou offers a multi-dimensional approach to cultivating physical, mental, and occupational well-being for musicians. Packed with relevant and accessible information, this book will be a treasured resource for studio instructors."" -- Dr. Vanessa Cornett, author, The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance ""Savvidou's book provides today's teachers a broad, comprehensive perspective of wellness that recognizes the importance of dealing with the 'whole person' that walks into our studios. It is an especially helpful and thorough resource to which studio teachers can turn for specific guidance on a broad and diverse range of practical topics. Especially notable is her identifying teachers as a student's 'first line of defense,' helping students through the many challenges impacting them today... This book deserves a prominent place in every musician's and music school's library."" -- Gail Berenson, Professor Emerita of Piano, Ohio University DL Athens and Past President, Music Teachers National Association"

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Paola Savvidou is a pianist, pedagogue, and wellness advocate. She serves as Wellness Initiative Program Manager and Adjunct Lecturer in Piano at the University of Michigan. Among her honors are two Article of the Year awards by the Music Teachers National Association for her publications. She is an avid presenter on pedagogical applications of Laban Movement Analysis, yoga, meditation, and Motivational Interviewing within the music studio setting.

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