2025 Quarterly CEU Sessions

In this year of global transition, LC has decided to not hold an in-person or virtual conference for 2025. Instead, we will to offer quarterly CEU sessions, giving the MTAI opportunities to learn, grow, see and support each other more frequently, without much cost.

Using the drop down list below, you will be able to pay for each session individually for $30 each, or purchase a package of all four for $100. While we would love you to attend each session in person, the videos will be available for you through your MTAI website login after the session has occurred. Anyone is welcome to attend these sessions. You’ll receive the Zoom link(s) before the start of the session.

2025 Quarterly CEU Sessions Registration

 

2025 Quarter 1 CEU Session: Qualities of Music, historical and present day with Jonathan Metzinger

The first CEU offering will be a musical competency, and will take place on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 8:30pm Eastern/ 7:30pm Central/ 6:30pm Mountain/ 5:30pm Pacific. Music-Thanatologist Margaret Pasquesi will be interviewing Jonathan Metzinger, a Chicago based prodigy pianist, composer and music director, about qualities of music, both in historical and present day contexts. Jonathan will be at a piano or harpsichord (we haven’t decided yet!) to play examples. The interview will be followed by a question and answer period for everyone present on the call.

At the completion of this session, attendees should be able to describe:

1) The musical qualities that were historically ascribed to the ecclesiastical modes, pre-equal temperament tunings and the modern development of keys and their emotions

2) The musical qualities historically and currently ascribed to various instruments.

3) The musical qualities that can be produced through compositional and delivery choices regardless of mode, key or instrumentation.

Competency: Musical
Hours: 1.5

You’ll receive the Zoom link before the start of the session.

 Jonathan Metzinger is a composer living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Jonathan’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Central America, and Europe by notable ensembles such as the Chicago Arts Orchestra, OperaMaya Festival Orchestra, Indiana University Latin American Ensemble, Indiana University Concert Orchestra, Indiana Wesleyan University Orchestra, Midwest Young Artists, and Metropolis Youth Symphony Orchestra. Classically trained, Jonathan composes in a wide array of styles including orchestral, chamber, choral, jazz, and electronic music. While not just confined to the concert stage, Jonathan has collaborated with artists of various mediums to provide soundtracks to film, multimedia, and dance. At the age of 16, Jonathan made his international debut as pianist soloing at the Teatro Nacional Miguel Ángel Asturias in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Jonathan received his bachelor’s degree in composition in May 2014 from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where he studied with Don Freund, Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström, and P.Q. Phan. Additionally, he spent a year studying composition in Vienna, Austria with Miguel Kertsman. In 2014, Jonathan was the composer-in-residence of the OperaMaya International Opera Festival where K’atun, a large work for orchestra and chorus in the Maya language, was premiered. Currently, Jonathan is the Director of Music at Saints Joseph and Francis Xavier Parish in Wilmette, Illinois.

2025 Quarters 2, 3 & 4

Topics for the remaining quarters will include:
  1. The most recent understanding of disease processes, how they manifest at end of life, and how they are pharmacologically by the Palliative Care/ Hospice teams. (Medical Competency)
  2. A review of selected music-thanatology professional papers for discussion (Professional/ Thanatological Competency)
  3. And more!