Ep 47 Alexia Quin

Alexia Quin is the director of Music as Therapy International, a
charity which she founded in 1995 and which seeks to embed music
into the care and education of vulnerable people worldwide. 
Alexia trained at Roehampton in the late 1990s and worked as a
music therapist in the NHS for 15 years.  In 2017 she was
awarded the WFMT Advocate of Music Therapy Award and in 2018 she
was a member of the Commission which examined the role of music
within the care and treatment of people living with dementia.


Luke talked to Alexia about the genesis of the charity, which she
founded before training as a music therapist. They discuss
how training affected her attitude to the work of the charity,
and vice versa, and talk in much detail about the many projects
that have happened since, and are continuing to be developed at
the moment, despite the challenges of the pandemic.


After the tumultuous last year, many schools are beginning to
think how they might enhance the mechanisms they have to provide
universal support to students with respect to mental health and
well-being.  If there are any music therapists out there who
want to consider their role contributing to this in schools known
to them and/or how they identify and share relevant skills,
Alexia would love to hear from them.


Anderson, M.B., Brown, D. and Jean, I. (2012) Time To Listen:
Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid. CDA
Collaborative Learning Projects.


Cottam, H. (2018) Radical Help: How we can remake the
relationships between us and revolutionalise the welfare state.
London: Virago Press.


Quin, A. (2017) Bringing it all back home. Unpublished
paper.  Japan:  World Congress of Music Therapy.


Sen, A. (2001). Development as freedom. Oxford New York: Oxford
University Press.


www.musicastherapy.org


https://www.facebook.com/musicastherapy


www.interactivemusicmaking.org


"You look a little shy: let me introduce you to that leg of
mutton," said the Red Queen. "Alice --Mutton: Mutton --Alice."
The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to
Alice, and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be
frightened or amused.


"May I give you a slice?" she said...


"Certainly not," the Red Queen said, very decidedly: "it isn't
etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to. Remove the
joint!" And the waiters carried it off, and brought a large
plum-pudding in its place.


"I won't be introduced to the pudding, please," Alice said rather
hastily, "or we shall get no dinner at all." [Through the
Looking-Glass, Norton Critical Edition, 200]