Dr. Martha Summa-Chadwick has achieved a wide reputation as a performer of chamber and solo works for piano. She holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Kansas.  Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro, Yakov Kasman, and Jack Winerock. Dr. Summa-Chadwick has performed in roles of both piano and harpsichord soloist with orchestras in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, and Alabama, and has also specialized in performing 20th century chamber and solo works. She is currently on the faculty of the Cadek Conservatory in Chattanooga.

Her varied career talents include not only that of concert pianist but also teacher and information technologist.  She is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences including conferences for the World Piano Pedagogy, Music Teacher’s National Association, American Music Therapy Association, Southeast Autism Center, and Computing Sciences in Colleges.  She has completed Fellowship level training at Colorado State University for Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) and is the only NMT Fellow certified in the state of Tennessee.  Dr. Summa-Chadwick has combined her passion of music and technology in her role as Executive Director of the non-profit organization Music Therapy Gateway In Communications.  (MTGIC)

For the last three years MTGIC has been engaged in the creation of web-based software by partnering with the UTC Department of Computer Science in the automation of specific NMT cognition techniques.  By combining the effectiveness of NMT along with computer technology, it is hoped that families of children with special needs who would not normally have access to NMT will be effectively served.

Dr. Martha Summa-Chadwick has achieved a wide reputation as a performer of chamber and solo works for piano. She holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Kansas.  Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro, Yakov Kasman, and Jack Winerock. Dr. Summa-Chadwick has performed in roles of both piano and harpsichord soloist with orchestras in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, and Alabama, and has also specialized in performing 20th century chamber and solo works. She is currently on the faculty of the Cadek Conservatory in Chattanooga.