Therese Schroeder-Sheker is a musician and educator who served as the academic dean of the School of Music-Thanatology at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana from 1992 to 2002, using voice and harp as a music-thanatologist to support terminally ill patients. In 1988, she released The Queen's Minstrel, on Windham Hill Records, followed by Rosa Mystica (1990) and In Dulci Jubilo (1991), both on Celestial Harmonies. Schroeder-Sheker's contributions were recognized with an honor from the New York Open Center in 1997, and her video Chalice of Repose: A Contemplative Musician's Approach to Death and Dying won first place at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
