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About Lucy Lucy Morganstern is a professional violinist, composer, teacher and intuitive healer. Currently residing in New York City, she is a member of the American Ballet Theatre and American Symphony Orchestras and has toured extensively throughout the United States. During the past two years she has played in recital at Hunter College and Manhattanville College and also composed and performed the music to an improvisation theatre piece at the Merce Cunningham Studio. Most recently, she has improvised on a recording of the works of Yoel Ben Simhon. Lucy has also been involved in healing work on behalf of both people and animals. She has studied and taught Brain Gym®, a whole brain integration technique, as well as TTouch™, a touch oriented therapy created specifically to help animals, and uses these and other modalities in addition to her intuitive healing gifts. She has also been involved in hospice work with dying animals. In the summer of 2002, desiring to comfort a grief stricken client coping with the death of her cat, Lucy composed a piece specifically commemorating the beloved pet, Mirabelle and has since continued to honor the memory of people and animals in musical compositions which she calls “Musical Memorials.” This past March she was invited to play some of her Musical Memorials at the 8th International Festival of Women Composers held in Gainesville, Florida. Lucy recently gave a presentation at the annual conference of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, where she spoke about and demonstrated the healing aspects of music. She performed some of her Musical Memorials and additionally, created extemporaneous compositions for grieving workshop participants.