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Here follows a presentation of forthcoming congresses and conferences related to the field of Music Therapy. This list will be under a constant revision. Organizers of congresses/conferences or others who has information on international conferences not listed here, please send your information to rune.rolvsjord@uni.no (Please make sure that the information is organized in the same way as in our presentation below).


  • SEMPRE Conference

    Theme/Title: Striking a Chord; Music, Health & Wellbeing; Current developments in research and practice

    Place: Folkestone, England

    Time: 9-11 September

    Organisers: Sidney De Haan Centre for Arts and Health

    Web: www.canterbury.ac.uk/centres/sidney-de-haan-research/Conference


  • Australian Music Therapy Association’s 37th National Conference

    Theme/Title: Family, groups and systems: The ecology of music therapy

    Place: Brisbane, Australia

    Time: 17-18 September, 2011

    Organisers: Australian Music Therapy Association

    Web: http://www.austmta.org.au/conf/


  • Music Care Conference

    Place: John Aird Centre, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Time: October 22, 2011

    Organisers: The Room 217 Foundation

    Web: http://www.room217.ca/index.php/music-care-conference


  • Den skandinaviske psykoterapikonferansen 2011

    Title/Theme: Empowerment & Resilience

    Place: Oslo

    Time: November 11-13, 2011

    Organisers: Norsk Forbund for psykoterapi

    Email: Ruth Eckhoff: ruth@musikk-og-bevegelse.no

    Web: Norsk Forbund for psykoterapi


  • NZSM Music Therapy Conference 2011

    Theme/Title: Performing and Enquiring. Celebrating Practice-Based Research in Music Therapy and Related Professions

    Place: Wellington, New Zealand

    Time: 11-13 November, 2011

    Organisers: New Zealand School of Music

    Web: http://www.nzsm.ac.nz/events/MusicTherapy2011.aspx


  • Annual Conference of the American Music Therapy Association

    Title/Theme: AMTA in the ATL: Advocacy, Therapy and Leadership

    Place: Atlanta, GA

    Time: November 16-20, 2011

    Organisers: American Music Therapy Association

    Web: www.musictherapy.org


  • 38th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Music Therapy

    Title/Theme: Avant-garde

    Place: Montreal, Canada

    Time: May 3-5, 2012

    Organisers: Canadian Association of Music Therapy

    Web: www.musictherapy.ca/conference.htm


  • Gender, Health, and the Creative Arts Therapies

    Place: Montreal, Canada (in conjuncton with the CAMT conference)

    Time: May, 5-6, 2012

    Organisers: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Web: http://creativeartstherapies.concordia.ca/news-and-events/events/homepage-events/international-conference-on-gender-health-and-the-creative-arts-therapies—may-2012.php


  • 7th Nordic Music Therapy Conference

    Place: University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Time: June, 13-17, 2012

    Organisers: Finnish Society of Music Therapy/University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Web: http://www.nmtc2012.fi


  • International Association of Music and Medicine

    Place: Bangkok, Thailand

    Time: July 3-6, 2012

    Organisers: International Association of Music and Medicine

    Web: http://www.iammthailand.com/


  • 9th European Congress of Music Therapy

    Place: Oslo, Norway

    Time: in 2013

    Organisers: European Music Therapy Confederation / Norwegian Association of Music Therapy

    Web: www.emtc-eu.com/