Rosanne Cash is a composer and singer-songwriter who has earned 4 Grammy Awards and 14 Grammy nominations, among numerous other accolades for songwriting and sound recordings. She is also an author, whose 2010 memoir Composed garnered widespread praise from critics and landed on the New York Times bestseller list. In addition, she is a music community catalyst who often brings together giants of American roots music for various events and is a valued voice in documenting modern music history. In 2021, Cash was the first female composer to receive the MacDowell Medal, awarded since 1960 to an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture.

Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time. Honored with five Grammy awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Super Bowl. A 2023 Kennedy Center Honoree, she is also a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health for the World Health Organization. Fleming currently stars at the Metropolitan Opera in The Hours, based on the award-winning novel and film. Her anthology, Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, was published by Viking in April. A prominent advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience, as Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée launched the first ongoing collaboration between America’s national cultural center and the National Institutes of Health. In addition to directing SongStudio at Carnegie Hall, Renée is Co-Artistic Director of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS at the Aspen Music Festival and School and Advisor for Special Projects at the Los Angeles Opera. Additional awards include the 2023 Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, and the Order of Merit from Germany.

David Leventhal is a founding teacher and Program Director for Dance for PD, a research-backed, award-winning program of the Mark Morris Dance Group that has been used as a model for classes in more than 400 communities in 30 countries. He leads classes for people living with Parkinson's disease around the world and trains other teaching artists in the Dance for PD® approach. He's co-produced five volumes of a successful instructional video series and helped conceive and design Moving Through Glass, a dance-based Google Glass App for people with Parkinson's. He’s received multiple awards for his work, including the 2016 World Parkinson Congress Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Parkinson's Community, and has written and published extensively about the intersection of dance and Parkinson’s. He designed and continues to lead a groundbreaking Narrative Medicine course for first-year medical students at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a regular guest lecturer at Tufts' Department of Occupational Therapy. As a dancer, he performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1997-2011, appearing in principal roles in some of Mark Morris' most celebrated works and receiving a 2010 Bessie Award for his performance career.

Dr. Concetta Tomaino is the Executive Director and co-founder, with renowned author neurologist Oliver Sacks, of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. Dr. Tomaino is internationally known for her 40-plus years of research in the clinical applications of music and neurologic rehabilitation. She lectures on music therapy throughout the world. Her work has been featured in national programs and documentaries; in international programs including the BBC; and in books on health and healing. Dr. Sacks' book Musicophilia is dedicated to her. Dr. Tomaino is Past-President of the American Association for Music Therapy and was Vice President and founding board member for the International Association for Music and Medicine. She received the Award of Accomplishment from Music Therapists for Peace at the United Nations. In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Music Therapy Association. Her new book is Music Has Power in Senior Wellness and Healthcare: Best Practices from Music Therapy from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023. She is an Adjunct Professor at Lehman College, CUNY.