What to expect from this program: Participants will be asked to step outside their comfort zones and be open to new collaborative experiences. Using different pieces in the galleries as inspiration, participants will create their own rhythmic and emotive musical expressions. During the workshop component participants will explore how music helps them tap into their emotions and explore the different emotional impacts of lines and densities.

Presenter Biographies

Caroline Greco: Program Director of the Greens at Greenwich

Caroline Greco is humanistic and strengths-based Board-Certified Music Therapist and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist who has a passion for serving older adults with memory impairment and individuals receiving hospice care. Caroline spent her undergraduate and graduate studies at SUNY New Paltz, receiving her Master of Science in Music Therapy in 2020. Through her clinical training and professional work, Caroline has provided individual and group music therapy services in pediatric oncology units, neonatal intensive care units, assisted living facilities and nursing homes for older adults with dementia, rehabilitation facilities for adults with traumatic and acquired brain injuries, and homecare for individuals receiving hospice services.

Caroline is the Program Director and Music Therapist at The Greens at Greenwich. She provides recreative, receptive, and improvisational music experiences to enhance quality of life through social and emotional engagement, to provide opportunities for musical and verbal self-expression, to promote reminiscence and life review, to help cultivate resources for coping, and to offer support, comfort, and joy.

Corinne Flax: Manager of School and Community Partnerships at the Bruce Museum.

Working in education has always been a part of Corinne’s life, ever since she first worked as a camp counselor in Chester, Connecticut. Since those early days she has received an M.A. from Bank Street in Museum Education and pursued a career in museum education.

Corinne joined the Bruce Museum in 2015 as Manager of School and Community Partnerships, where she develops curriculum and community partnerships and works to create intersections between art and science. Corinne recently completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training

as well as an additional 20-hour Kids and Teens Teacher Training and is excited to incorporate movement into the museum experience.

Maria Scaros: Executive Director of the Greens at Greenwich.

As the Executive Director of the Greens at Greenwich, a position Maria has held for over 9 years, she has shaped The Greens into a teaching site for master level students in the creative arts therapies. The Greens is the only memory care assisted living with an ongoing internship program for the creative arts therapies with onsite supervision. A licensed creative arts psychotherapist and board-certified trainer in drama therapy, Maria has developed and implemented innovative programming in various settings throughout her career and has mentored countless creative arts therapists.

Maria was among a group that founded the North American Drama Therapy Association in 1979. She is also an interfaith minister and clinical chaplain, has a bachelor's in interpersonal communications and anthropology from Hunter College; an MA in theater and an MEd in education from Columbia University; and is a doctoral candidate at NYU in Drama Therapy.

Maria’s passion for the creative arts in psychotherapy and her deep affection for the population with whom she works influenced her further studies in the neuroscience of the arts. She believes that the arts are a means to the spirit, the soul, and to our overall wellness as human beings.