Letha Mark

Letha Mark is currently serving as Clinical Training Director and instructor in the Music Therapy program at Utah State University.  In addition to these responsibilities, Letha also contracts with various companies in Cache Valley, such as Alpine Hospice and Bear River Activity & Skill Center to provide music therapy services to their clientele.  She completed her Bachelor of Music Therapy degree at Marylhurst University in 2005.  Her clinical internship was completed at Adventist Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, and she was subsequently hired there to provide music therapy services on three acute psychiatric units.

Prior to her career in Music Therapy, Ms. Mark operated a private piano studio in her home for 17 years and was a member of the Oregon Music Teachers Association.  She has enjoyed directing many choirs, including a 200-voice choir that performed in the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon.  Letha enjoyed working with a team in composing and arranging music for an original sesquicentennial pageant that was held at The End of the Oregon Trail Museum in Oregon City, Oregon.  Ms. Mark considers her greatest accomplishment to be the mothering of three beautiful children who, in addition to her husband, all still consent to sing in public with her.

Ms. Mark’s primary instrument is the piano, but she uses her guitar most often in music therapy practice.  Whenever she can, she will incorporate a hand drum into the music session and likes to jam on her drum set at home.  She is also excited to be learning to play the tenor saxophone.  Ms. Mark dreams of one day playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the piano with an orchestra and of playing the saxophone with a jazz band.  She is excited to be associated with Music Therapy in Utah.

letha.mark@usu.edu

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