Linda Schneck, MA, CM-Th, is a harpist and teacher, composer and performer, beekeeper, and a Certified Music-Thanatologist.  She has been nationally affiliated with The Chalice of Repose Project of Mount Angel, Oregon where she has served as a senior Harp and Clinical faculty member in the School of Music Thanatology.  As a music-thanatologist Ms. Schneck has attended nearly three thousand vigils over the last decade in every healthcare setting: hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, home-health settings, and long-term care facilities.

Her musical formation has included piano performance degree studies with Alexander Fiorillo of Temple University, private piano study with Peter Takács of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and studies in harp, contemplative musicianship, and composition with Therese Schroeder-Sheker, founder of the field of Music-Thanatology. Her graduate work has included composition studies with Nicholas Brooke, as well as music studies with Allen Shawn. With a publishing date of Spring 2012, she is currently completing a book entitled Transforming Light. This text with accompanying music explores relationships between sound, being, and nature.  She has originated the name Eco-thanatology© to describe the research, study, and expression of the musical gesture of harp in transformative relationship to the sounding world of nature.  She shares her hope for the field of palliative care serving skilled nursing facilities in her essay,“The Temple Vision in Palliative Care”, published in Explore: Journal of Science and Healing 2006 (Vol. 2/500).

Ms. Schneck has synthesized a lifetime focus on music, teaching, and spirituality through the founding of Lectio Musica, expanding the Temple Vision of healthcare to include a bee sanctuary and earth-based center for the study of harp as a contemplative practice.

Residencies are offered in Vermont in an environment of quiet, beauty, and contemplation where our innate empathy for the myriad tones of the world may be awakened in a generative interplay between silence, deep listening, embodied revelation, and sounding responsivity.