Musician In Residence & Semans/Byrd Performing Arts Coordinator at Duke University Hospital. 2014 to present.

Click on the above photo to read an article about "Putting the Arts in Health" from Duke Today

The Duke Cancer Center relies on volunteers to play its Steinway & Sons piano and bring beautiful music to the lobby, hallways and waiting rooms. Sometimes, those volunteers on the keys are Duke musicians - artists in residence, professors and administrators - who play for Duke Hospital patients, visitors and colleagues.

Click to read about performing music with patients bedside.

From 2014 - 2016, I was the Music Teacher at the Duke Children's Health Center & Hospital through the Arts For Life program. I taught hundreds of pediatric patients ukulele using my original teaching method book.

I also created and produced the "Arts For Life Radio" bedside podcast, where pediatric patients perform songs, tell jokes, and give interviews. Not to be missed!

From 2013 - 2016, I was a visiting teaching artist at the UNC Hospital School. I demonstrated and discussed the string-instrument family and taught group and bedside ukulele lessons, featuring both English & Spanish language songs.

William Dawson

Musician In Residence & Semans/Byrd Performing Arts Coordinator at Duke University Hospital. 2014 to present.

From 2014 - 2016, I was the Music Teacher at the Duke Children's Health Center & Hospital through the Arts For Life program. I taught hundreds of pediatric patients ukulele using my original teaching method book.

I also created and produced the "Arts For Life Radio" bedside podcast, where pediatric patients perform songs, tell jokes, and give interviews. Not to be missed!

From 2013 - 2016, I was a visiting teaching artist at the UNC Hospital School. I demonstrated and discussed the string-instrument family and taught group and bedside ukulele lessons, featuring both English & Spanish language songs.