About The Surry Music Therapy Center - Alan Wittenberg Maine Music Therapy

1) In the 1990s Alan presented a music therapy seminar at the invitation of Edith Lecourt, General Secretary of the French Music Therapy Association at the University René Descartes - Paris V Sorbonne, Paris France.

2) On a later trip to Paris, Alan wrote the proposal for and implemented a music therapy program that took place on the outskirts of Paris at an Institute for multiply disabled visually and hearing impaired children and youth. The institute in Cheveruse was part of a larger agency "Universitare Entradie" which provided clinical, developmental and rehabilitative services to many Children and adults with disabilities at many locations throughout France.

The program was a true international exchange which incorporated three Russian specialists in music therapy from the Center Alan founded in Saint Petersburg to work together with Alan in France for two weeks with disabled French Children. The program was funded by Universitare Entradie and was the first of its kind in France to incorporate music therapists from the US, and Russia to work with French children with disabilities.

3) In the late 1990s, Alan coordinated an International conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia at the Central National Library titled Music Communication and Contact that included presentations by Edith Lecourt as well as two of her colleagues from Paris University.

4) In 2002, Alan co-coordinated a music therapy conference in Kyoto, Japan at the Kyoto International Center for Music Therapy and arranged for Edith Lecourt to be invited to give a presentation on the development of music therapy in France as well as her own concept(s) of music therapy as a clinical and rehabilitative field.