Melanie Voigt

Melanie Voigt, Ph.D./Univ. Texas studied music education in the US and taught in the public schools there. She trained for music therapy with Gertrud Orff at the Kinderzentrum München in Munich, Germany. She has been head of the music therapy department at that institution since 1984. In addition to her duties as a music therapist she has been responsible for quality management at the Kinderzentrum München since 2006. She is head of training courses in Orff Music Therapy at the Deutsche Akademie für Entwicklungsförderung und Gesundheit des Kindes und Jugendlichen in Munich and lectures in Orff Music Therapy at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany. She also holds the qualification of “Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeutin”. She has published in both English and German. Email: m.voigt@kinderzentrum-muenchen.de

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Interview with Christoph Schwabe
Orff Music Therapy