“ Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals of all ages.  Music therapy improves the quality of life, meets the needs of children and adults with disabilities or illnesses.  Music therapy interventions can be designed to: promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation.  Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in a wide variety of healthcare and educational settings”. [American Music Therapy Association]

“ Music therapy is the use of sounds and music within an evolving relationship between client and therapist to support and encourage physical, mental, social and emotional well-being” [ Leslie Bunt – Music Therapy…An Art Beyond Words ].

Historical evidence of music and its employment in education, entertainment, healing and mood management is extensive in writings, frescoes, paintings, leaf and papyrus bindings discovered, documented and preserved across the habitats of all eastern and western ancient civilizations. Twentieth century medical and scientific disciplines commenced efforts post 1930 to codify the value and practice of its therapeutic intervention and acceptance as a non-invasive complementary and alternative medicine.  Music, depending on the nature of its delivery and the environment in which it is delivered, connects and communicates with us in different individual ways.  The Human Body is but an Inner Universe which responds to physical and neural communication.  Music, delivered in a calibrated dosage evokes a neural response.   For the Music Therapist, sound as music is a means to an end  - a instrument for creating the sensation of hearing, a transmission of controlled energy that is perceived by the ear,  processed by the brain and resonates in the energy centres of the body as a symbol of movement.