Claus Bang
Music therapist and audio speech therapist born 1938. Trained in Music Education and Music Therapy in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States. Head of the Music Therapy Programme at the Aalborg School and Guidance Centre for Deaf, Hearing-Impaired and Deaf-Blind Children and Adolescents, Denmark 1961-1998. 1969 co-founder of the Danish Society of Music Therapy and member of the Board 1969-1979. Head of Music Therapy Training at the Royal Danish College of Educational Studies 1973-1976. Initiator and member of the planning group for the Music Therapy Institute at Aalborg University 1977-1982. Since 1976 instructor and member of the Board of the International Society for further Training in Music Education (IGMF), Germany, and since 2004 honorary member. Vice-president and instructor for The Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children, Great Britain since 1981. Presentations and demonstrations of music therapy in 42 countries. Free-lance instructor, project leader and pensioner since 1998. Founder and chairman of The Music Therapy Foundation "A World of Sound and Music" for Deaf, Hearing Impaired and Multi-Handicapped Children and Adolescents, Denmark in 2000. Published the multimedia production (3 duallayer DVD+Rs) A World of Sound & Music - Music Therapy for Deaf, Hearing Impaired and Multi-Handicapped Children and Adolescents, material for treatment, education, training and research in 2005.

Elke Bartlmä, Dipl. Päd.
Trained as a special school teacher at the college of education in Klagenfurt, Austria and as an audio-pedagogical teacher for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Works as a supporting teacher for hard-of-hearing children integrated in primary and secondary
schools in Carinthia, Austria.

Naomi Benari, MA
Danced with Ballet Rambert and has an MA in Dance Studies. She created "Dance for Everyone", the first dance company to be set up in Great Britain solely for work in education. The company gave performances and dance workshops in schools for many years. She taught dance to profoundly deaf children in a number of schools and units using Inner Rhythm, and also gave therapeutic dance sessions to children with learning difficulties, often employing Inner Rhythm techniques. She has written
and lectured widely on her work with deaf children.

Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming
Was for many years the director of the Orff Music Program for the Toronto Board of Education in Canada. She also directed the Orff Teacher Training courses at the Royal Conservatory of Music and York University, Canada as well as teaching courses in Special Education through Music. She has given workshops and courses throughout Canada and the USA and in many parts of Europe and South Africa. Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming has authored many articles and books on the subject of music education, including Music for Fun, Music for Learning, Come On Everybody, Let's Sing, Music for All and she edited An Orff Mosaic From Canada, Orff au Canada: une mosaïque. Songs for Listening, Songs for Life!, Hear and Listen! Talk and Sing! and The Goat with the Bright Red Socks.

Giulia Cremaschi Trovesi
Pianist, composer, music teacher (piano and composition), music therapist, trainer and supervisor. Taught music in secondary schools, was responsible for music therapy from 1981 to 1997 at the Institute of Audiology of the University of Milan, Italy and taught on the four-year music therapy course in Assisi from 1981-2000 as well as on music therapy courses in other countries. Founded the APMM 'Giulia Cremaschi Trovesi' (Musical Pedagogy and Music Therapy Association) centre of Humanistic
Music Therapy in 1991, president of the APMM. Founded the I.F.M. (Italian Federation of Music Therapists) in 1998 together with a group of professionals. President to the European and world-wide Conferences of Music therapy. Has researched in the
fields of communication, music therapy, music pedagogy,