About Us

The Music Therapy Charity was founded in 1969

Music Therapy Charity had an important influence on British music Therapy practice.

The charity's principal function had been to raise money to fund research which is intrinsic to the development and refinement of the growing body of knowledge used by Music Therapists.

Recently the MTC has a new focus encouraging innovative Music Therapy projects, the first of which is the Music in Action project.

The Charity's initial purpose was to support the influential work of Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins.

In 1974 a Nordoff-Robbins training course was started at Goldie Leigh Hospital in South London. This course together with its associated clinical work subsequently moved to Roehampton and later still to Kentish Town. The Nordoff-Robbins tradition places theoretical and practical emphasis on therapeutic change taking place within the musical improvisation itself.

Music Therapy Charity was presided over for more than 20 years by the late Lord Menuhin, OM KBE. Sir Neville Marriner CBE has been president since 2000.