Keynotes

The keynote presentations are planned to build bridges between disciplines and perspectives.

We start with an umbrella review, that builds a bridge to arts therapies and arts-based interventions. Following this overview presentation, there will be three keynote panels. We have come up with a special ‚Bridges’ format for these presentations. Each keynote panel will be introduced by a non-music therapist. Two music therapists will then form a bridge to the presentation.

Keynote Speakers

Arts-based interventions for non-communicable diseases: An impressive body of evidence

Photo: Gema Gomez

Dr. Martina de Witte

University of Melbourne
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
McKenzie Research Fellow
The Netherlands/Australia

Music therapy and psychotherapy research

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Willutzki

University Witten/Herdecke
Health Faculty
Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy
Germany

Dr. Karin Mössler

Bergen Culture School
Viennese Institute for Music Therapy
Norway/ Austria

Dr. Catherine Carr

Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry
Queen Mary University of London
East London Foundation NHS Trust, London
United Kingdom

Music therapy in society

Photo: Anna Dill

Prof. Dr. Katinka Schweizer

MSH Medical School Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences and Medical University
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences
Germany

Eleni Tsolka

Piraeus, Attika
Greece

Prof. Avi Gilboa, PhD

Bar-Ilan University
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Music
Israel

Medicine and music psychology for music therapy

Prof. Petri Toiviainen, PhD

University of Jyväskylä
Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Finland

Photo: Martina Bogdahn

Prof. Dr. habil. Susanne Metzner 

University of Augsburg
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Leopold Mozart College of Music
Germany

Dr. Patricia Marti Augé

Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya - Esmuc
Professor of the Master Program in Music Therapy
Barcelona (Spain)