About Us
Who We Are
President Sir Neville Marriner CBE
Vice-Presidents
Sir Thomas Allen CBE; Dr Peter Andry OBE OAM; Lady Badenoch; Richard Baker OBE RD; Sir James Black OM FRS FRCP; Simon Callow CBE; Richard Crewdson; Roy Van Gelder; Dame Beryl Grey DBE; Sir Charles Mackerras CBE AC; André Previn; Anne Skeggs.
Governors
Professor John Lumley MS FRCS (Chairman),
Professor of Surgery, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Honorary Consultant Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Member of Council, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Past World President, International College of Surgeons.
Professor Lumley has chaired the MTC for over 10 years and brings immense experience to the role.
Peter Parker TD MA FIA (Treasurer),
Adrian Barnes CVO MA DL
A Barrister with a goverment legal service background, his professional career was principally as Remembrancer of the City of London from 1986 to 2003 where his duties included the parliamentary legal work of the City of London Corporation as well as its major events for Royalty, British and Visiting Head of States and Government and Charities. He is a Deputy of Lieutenant of Greater London.
Adrian Barnes has been a Governor of The Music Therapy Charity since 1995 and was Chairman from 1997 to 2003, and oversaw the successful The Music Therapy Charity Fundraising Concerts in 1999 at Mansion House and in 2002 at Guildhall.
He was a trustee of The Wimbledon Guild of Social Welfare from 2003 to 2008 and Chairman from 2004 to 2008. He saw through the Centenary Year Celebrations in 2007 and a major HR review. At the Guild, a particular interest was in the counselling therapy service to the community.
Lady Caroline Borg ARCM
Lady Borg is an accomplished musician and teacher. She has a long history of involvement in charitable organisations including setting up charities such as Music for the Young. Her involvement with Coram and the Foundling Museum continues and her exceptional experience is invaluable to the development of the MTC.
Professor Leslie Bunt MBE PhD LGSM (MT) SRAsT (M) FAMI FRSA
Leslie Bunt is one of the world's most respected music therapy practitioners, trainers and researchers. As one of the UK's foremost music therapy pioneers he achieved the country's first PhD in Music Therapy in 1985. He is currently Professor in Music Therapy at the University of the West of England, the first such position in British university. He was awarded an MBE in June 2009. His reputation has grown over 30 years, working in the UK as an experienced registered music therapist with children and adults of all ages and both nationally and internationally as a music therapy trainer, supervisor and researcher.
Leslie Bunt founded The MusicSpace Trust, a registered charity promoting music therapy nationwide, with the first community-based centre opening in Bristol in 1991. Today MusicSpace employs over 50 MusicSpace therapists working in the UK, seeing over 1300 children and adults for music therapy through five regions of the UK. While remaining Honorary Founder of MusicSpace Leslie is devoting more time to his teaching, research and to developing his private practice. He currently facilitates group work for adults living with cancer as part of the therapy team at the Penny Brohn Cancer Care Centre.
He is also a practitioner and Primary Trainer in the specialist use of Guided Imagery in Music (GIM). Leslie is widely published and in addition to his work in music therapy is a free-lance conductor. He is currently Musical Director of the Bristol Phoenix Choir.
Dominic Delaforce
Dominic Delaforce is Head of UK Pension Funds at Aberdeen Asset Management and has worked his entire career in the investment management business. Dominic has been a Governor of the Music Therapy Charity since 2003 and is also a Liveryman and Member of the Investment Committee at the Worshipful Company of Vintners.
Dr Jonathan Katz
Anna Maratos MA MSc PGDip (MT)
Penny Neary
Dr Kate Thomson
Susan E Waldman
Professor Tony Wigram PhD LGSM (MT) RMTh SRAsT
BA(Hons) in music, Bristol University; LGSM(MT) in music therapy, Guildhall school of Music and Drama; DipPsych in Psychology, Royal Holloway & BedfordCollege. London University; PhD, St Georges Medical School, London University; State Registered Arts Therapist (Music), UK; Registered Music Therapist, USA.
Tony Wigram is Professor and Head of PhD. Studies in Music Therapy in the Department for Communication and Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Aalborg, Denmark. He is Professor in Music Therapy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK and Honorary Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Past President of the European Music Therapy Committee and Past-President of the World Federation of Music Therapy. He took a qualifying degree in Psychology at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University, and his Doctorate in Psychology at St. Georges Medical School, London University. He is an Adjunct Professor in Music Therapy at ISFOM, Naples, Italy, and the Institute for Music, Art and Process, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Tony Wigram is a former Chairman of the Association of Professional Music Therapists, and of the British Society for Music Therapy, and a Churchill Fellow of 1985. He has written or edited fourteen books on Music Therapy, and authored more than fifty articles in peer reviewed journals, and more than eighty chapters in books. His research interests include the physiological effect of sound and music, assessment and diagnosis of Autism and communication disorder, Rett Syndrome, methods of training and advanced level training in music therapy, and the documentation of methods and techniques in clinical practice in music therapy.