Andrew Rossetti

Adjunct Professor John J. Cali School of Music John J. Cali School of Music

Email: rossettian@montclair.edu

Biography

Andrew Rossetti PhD, MT-BC, LCAT, is a clinician, educator, researcher, solicited international speaker, and director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine’s multi-site Music Therapy Program in Oncology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. His clinical practice in medical music psychotherapy includes procedural support for surgery, symptom management in infusion suites, and the treatment of trauma and post-traumatic stress. His practice extends to intensive care in fragile areas, such as neonatal ICUs and oncology waiting rooms where he specializes in Environmental Music Therapy. His work as a consultant has led him to help design and implement music therapy programs in a number of hospitals in Europe. Dr. Rossetti is an international lecturer and has been a frequent invited and keynote speaker at conferences and universities in the US, Asia, South America, Europe, Africa, and Canada. He is the Executive Committee Secretary for the International Association for Music & Medicine, and chair of its ethics committee. Dr. Rossetti is on the faculty of ��vlog, and the University of Barcelona. His work has been featured in the NY Times, NPR’s Science Friday, and the NBC and CBS national television networks.

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Research

Loewy, J., Baggoro, M., Lawrence, S., Stewart, K., Rossetti, A., & Benn, E. (2026). Social Prescribing: Identifying Factors that Influence Mood in Audiences’ Experience of Live Music Concerts. Music & Science, 9.

Rossetti, A., Zhang, J., Environmental Music Therapy (EMT) in Hospital environments in Wheeler, B., et al Eds. Music Therapy Handbook, 2nd Edition Guilford Press, 2025

Rossetti, A., Trauma-informed Music Psychotherapy in Radiation Oncology: Implementation of the Trauma, Resilience, Safety Model in Beer, L. and Birnbaum, J., Eds Trauma-informed music therapy: Theory and practice New York, NY, Routledge, 2023, 184 pp.ISBN 978

Rossetti A, Loewy J, Chang-Lit W, van Dokkum NH, Baumann E, Bouissou G, Mondanaro J, O’Connor T, Asch-Ortiz G, Mitaka H. (2023) Effects of Live Music on the Perception of Noise in the SICU/PICU: A Patient, Caregiver, and Medical Staff Environmental Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(4):3499.

Schoonover, J., Rossetti, A., Jacobs, A., & Rubin, S. E. (2023). Virtual Music Therapy for Substance Use Disorders in a Federally Qualified Health Center. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. JABFM-22-0316R4, 10.3122/jabfm.2022.230109R3

Rossetti A, Loewy J. Fisher Z. Deshpande S. Chadha M, (2023) A clinical pilot study on the effects of environmental music therapy on anxiety and waiting in radiation oncology: A randomized control trial Music & Medicine Volume 15 number 1 ppgs. 52-62

van Dokkum, NH, Rossetti A, Loewy J. Music in the lobby: Listener and performer perspectives of a hospital Visiting Artists Series (VAS). Music Med, 2022;14(4), 205 212. https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v14i4.886

PhD Dissertation TSR Trauma, (2021) Safety, Resilience : A Music Psychotherapy Model for Addressing Illness Burden in Oncology, Open Science Center the University of Jyvaskyla

Loewy J, Rossetti A, Dassler A, Telsey A, (2021) Assessing & treating trauma: Music psychotherapy for parents of neonates Music & Medicine. Volume 13, Issue 2 Pages 138 – 149

Rossetti A. et al, (2021) Environmental Music Therapy’s Impact on Hospital Milieu During Relationship Completion in Relationship Completion in Palliative Care Music Therapy Barcelona Publishers, United States ISBN: 9781945411656

Mondanaro JF, Sara GA, Thachil R, Pranjić M, Rossetti A, EunHye Sim G, Canga B, Harrison IB, Loewy JV. (2021) The Effects of Clinical Music Therapy on Resiliency in Adults Undergoing Infusion: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. J Pain Symptom Manage. Jun;61(6):1099-1108. doi: 10.1016/j

Invited editorial Rossetti A, Loewy J, (2020) The Music “Question” in Research and Practice, The Int J Radiation Oncol Biol Phys, Vol. 109, No. 3, pp. 675e677, 2021 0360-3016/$ 2020 Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.11.025

Rossetti A, (2020) Environmental Music Therapy (EMT): Music’s Contribution to Changing Hospital Atmospheres and Perception of Hospital Environments, Music & Medicine 2020 Vol. 12 Issue 2, 130-141

Erkkila J, Poyhonen M, (2019) Interview with Andrew Rossetti, Finnish Journal of Music Therapy, Musiikkiterapia 34 (1) 16-21

Wheeler B, Lesiuk T, Burns D, Rossetti A, Hanser S (2019) Music Therapy and Music Medicine Studies in Oncology: Part I: A Comparison Journal of Music & Medicine, 11, 3, 145 –159

Wheeler B, Cassity M, Lesiuk T, Burns D, Rossetti A, Hanser S, (2019) Music Therapy and Music Medicine Studies in Oncology: Part II: The use of the Delphi Technique Journal of Music & Medicine, 11, 3, 160 – 165

Rossetti A, Fisher J, Pranjic M, (2018) Music Related Sensibilities in Trauma Treatment: An interview with Janina Fisher Music & Medicine Special Issue on Trauma, 10, 3, 162-167

Porges SW, Rossetti A, (2018) Editorial - Music, Music Therapy and Trauma, Music & Medicine, Special Issue on Trauma,10, 3, 117-120

Leieber A, Loewy J, Rossetti A, Mocco J, Kellner C, (2018) Effects of Music Therapy on Anxiety and Physiological Parameters in Angiography: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery doi: 101136/ neuroinstsurg-2018-014313

Rossetti, A., et al, (2017) The Impact of Music Therapy (MT) on Anxiety in Cancer Patients Undergoing Simulation for Radiation Therapy (RT), International Journal of Radiation Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (2017), doi: 10.1016/.ijrobp.2017.05.003.

Planas J, Escude N, Rossetti A, (2015) Effectiveness of Music Therapy in Advanced Cancer Patients Admitted to a Palliative Care Unit: A Non-Randomized Controlled, Clinical Trial , Music & Medicine Volume 7 Issue 1

Rossetti, A., (2014) Towards Prescribing Music in Clinical Contexts: More than Words Journal of Music & Medicine vol. 6, no. 2

Rossetti, A., (2014) Music Therapy’s Impact on Modulating Emotional and Cognitive Domains of Pain Perception in Patients with Cancer. PainWeek Journal, number 2

Rossetti, A., Canga, B., (2013) Environmental Music Therapy: Rationale for ‘Multi-Individual’ Music Psychotherapy in Modulation of the Pain Experience Chapter in Integrative Models in Pain Medicine Mondanaro J ed Satchnote Armstrong Press

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