Brittany Croley is an oboist, vocalist, and guitarist in her first year at the NYU Steinhardt Music Therapy program. She has performed in various orchestras and chamber ensembles in the U.S., as well as throughout Asia and Europe. Brittany holds a BA in Oboe Performance from Vanderbilt University.

Prior to her acceptance at NYU, Brittany worked as a professional freelance oboist and private music instructor. As a music educator, she worked with young children with a wide range of developmental disabilities, including apraxia and other communication disorders, which led her to discover her calling as a music therapist. As a graduate student, Brittany is doing fieldwork at HeartShare Human Services in Brooklyn, where she works with both preschoolers and school-aged children with various language and speech disorders, cerebral palsy, Autistim Spectrum Disorders, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and Down syndrome. In addition to HeartShare, Brittany is also doing work at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy where she films and indexes music therapy sessions for a stroke patient suffering from hemiplegia and nonfluent aphasia.

In September 2010, Brittany was an intern and digital media coordinator for “Music as a Natural Resource,” an international compendium that was presented in NYC as part of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Project. She feels very blessed to be a part of the music therapy program at NYU Steinhardt and is very excited to be using her music as a natural remedy to assist others in their psychological and personal development. Brittany’s primary instruments are the guitar and voice, and she is greatly influenced by the thumb picking styles of her Kentucky roots. Besides folk music, Brittany is also influenced by jazz and is also an improvisational pianist. In addition to becoming a music therapist, Brittany also plans to conduct research to further explore the relationships between clinical music therapy and neuromusicology.