Bringing Voices Together

Offering unique ways to creatively connect us with ourselves and our community.

Include creative music in your gathering

Gloria’s Music brings together our personal, social, and spiritual voices through unique multi-layered violin improvisations. Explore how to integrate this into your retreat, workshop, worship service, protest/rally, or other special event. Available indoor, outdoor, in-person, or virtually.

  • “Gloria Stearns-Bruner brings integrity, compassion and deep wisdom to everything she does. We have shared music for many years and I am always touched and moved by the depth of soul and beauty expressed in her work. She is a heart of light in a world of many shadows, a clear-eyed midwife to a joyous and collective rising song.“

    － Carrie Newcomer, songwriter, poet, activist

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Gloria Sturns-Bruner

Gloria Stearns-Bruner, violinist and music therapist, brings voices together through music and art to create unique ways of expression through improvisation. Making music in the moment, Gloria is influenced by an eclectic mix of ancient voices- Native American flute, Gregorian chant, Irish, Appalachian, and Middle Eastern styles. Her music reflects what she hears in nature, experiences on her personal journey, and faces in our society. Her wellspring is the Quaker spiritual practice of deep listening in silence.

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Collaborate with Gloria

Add your creative work to build beautiful connections and respond together to our personal, spiritual and social callings. Musicians, poets, writers, dancers, photographers, visual artists, storytellers, and more are welcome to join in a variety of collaborations both virtually and in-person.

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Contact

Gloria Stearns-Bruner
812-320-2679
connect@gloriasmusic.com

  • “We so appreciated your contribution of a creative and unique reflection space at the conference last weekend. Your gentle and sincere approach added to the safe and loving atmosphere that all were part of. “

    － Karen Pollock, Planning team of the Bahai Global Conference for Building Vibrant Communities

  • “‘Elijah’s Lament’ - Haunting and eloquent, Gloria, thank you!”

    － Carolyn Cooke

  • “Gloria, this is just transcendent. Thanks so much for sharing… Your music “Prayer for Ukraine” cuts deep - a surgical, healing cut.”

    － Erik Ehn, Playwright, The Saint Plays, Beginner, and 13 Christs

  • “The reaction from my Black brothers is like you are doing music therapy at a public level. I had only thought of therapy as an individual activity until seeing how our joint venture and the way your violin affects souls is healing some wounded spirits, including my own.”

    － Donald H. Matthews, PhD. Oxford Author: “Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature”, Pilgrim Press Author: “Can This Church Live?”

  • “From the moment I entered the 'room' I felt it was sacred space and I think the beautiful music really helped to establish that sense.”

    － Workshop Participant, “Mediating Trauma through Creative Expression”

"Raindrops" photo by Kevin Stearns-Bruner. Photos by Michael Bruner.