UR Medicine / Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center / For Patients & Staff

Arts Enrichment

Enriching the Lives of our Community

EPAM seeks to enrich the healthcare environment by integrating music that calms, nurtures and inspires for the well-being of our community: patients, caregivers, employees, and students. Utilizing non-traditional settings such as public spaces in hospitals, waiting and family rooms, and hallways, our hospital community will experience personal and meaningful interactions with world-class musicians. Weekly public performances are held throughout the hospital public areas.

Enriching the Lives of Artists

Artists experience new levels of performance and audience interaction with community of all ages and medical conditions. This experience brings deeper meaning to their work, and by reaching out beyond their comfort zone, artists learn the unspoken power and deep emotions elicited by their presence and use of the arts as a healing tool.

Man playing music on phone while patient watches
An infusion patient listens as EPAM musician Kenneth Kam performs a piece on classical guitar via Zoom at Wilmot Cancer Center where Kam's performance took place as part of the Music at the Bedside virtual concerts for patients, supported in part with funding from Project: Music Heals Us. // photo by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester

Upcoming Events

Lobby Music at Strong Memorial Hospital

January 06 2:00 PM

Strong Memorial Hospital Main Lobby

Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center (EPAM) has offered live music in lobby spaces at URMC since 2019. During the week, visitors, staff, and patients can find artists playing in the main lobby and ...

Live Music at Finger Lakes Coffee Shop

January 07 2:00 PM

Strong Memorial Hospital Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters (Near Green Elevator)

Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center is happy to support live music at the Finger Lakes Coffee Shop (ATM stand location near the green elevators) during the weekday afternoon. Artists come from the...

Wilmot Wednesdays - Music in the Lobby of WCI

January 08 10:00 AM

Wilmot Cancer Center

Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) is excited to offer live music in the beautiful, airy lobby of the Wilmot Cancer Center on Wednesdays. This is not a traditional concert! You are welcome to st...

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