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Student Violinist Brings Healing Music to Hospital Patients and Employees
Sherri Swayne is not fiddling around. She is a serious violinist, who is volunteering to play her instrument in various venues at South Coast Medical Center. “Her music is wonderful,” said Richard Valdivia, New Programs Coordinator, who is scheduling periodic musical performances in the hospital as part of the SCMC Planetree program of “Music for Health”. Sherri is a member of the SCMC Auxiliary Student Volunteers, and is part of the Health and Medical Occupations Academy at Dana Hills High School, where she is a 10th grader. Sherri, in her seventh year studying the violin, plays classical music, which helps make our hospital a warm, inviting place for all who hear her violin performances, including patients in nursing care areas, hospital visitors, and our staff and volunteers. Her music can be heard every Thursday afternoon. Although she usually positions herself in one location, such as an open spot in a nurses’ station, her beautiful violin music seems to fill the hallways and floats into patient-care rooms as well. On a recent Thursday, Sherri was a vagabond violinist, performing in the Intensive Care Unit on the third floor, the Medical / Surgical Unit on the fourth floor, and then in the main lobby. On her own, she also has played the violin on Saturdays for patients and the nursing staff in the SCMC Subacute Unit. Sherri, 15 years old and daughter of Margaret and Robert Swayne of Dana Point, is leaning toward a career in veterinary medicine, but she says music will always be a part of her life. In any case, she certainly has found an appreciative audience for her music in a medical setting at SCMC. |
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