Posted on October 18, 2023 by Jordan Allen
Tracy Cowden is making great strides at UTSA at the intersection of music performance and healing.
OCTOBER 18, 2023 — Tracy Cowden is making great strides at UTSA at the intersection of music performance and healing. Cowden, the director of the UTSA School of Music, is dedicated to researching the positive impact of music on cognition and behavior, mood and anxiety disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Alzheimer’s Disease and overall brain wellness and aging. She is also working to understand how she can impact others as a performing artist herself and how she can facilitate music learning to help others take an active role in their own health and well-being.
Cowden, who previously served as the chair of Virginia Tech’s music department, joined UTSA in 2018 as the recipient of the Ronald K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Music. She was eager to join UTSA, knowing how an endowed position would yield opportunities to delve into new research to explore the link between music and health.
“While music has been used for centuries to comfort, uplift and energize us, through interdisciplinary research we are now learning the specific and awe-inspiring ways that the brain and body change in response to music,” said Cowden.
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— Jordan Allen
