Reminder: Call for Proposals: We are currently accepting proposals for the 2024 AMTA Symposium, which will be held September 22-25, 2024 ..read more

We celebrate our clients, therapists, students, and supporters this World Music Therapy Week, April 10-15. Thank you for your collaboration and commitment to help advance our mission in making quality music therapy services available ..read more

Call for Proposals and Reviewers - 2024 AMTA Symposium ..read more

Each year, the AMTA Board of Directors honors two deserving individuals with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The 2023 recipients are Barbara Else, MPA, MT-BC and Dr. Edward Kahler, MT-BC ..read more

The American Music Therapy Association Board of Directors is pleased to share the Final Report of the AMTA Commission on the Education and Clinical Training of 21st Century Music Therapists. This visionary report makes recommendations about the future of education and clinical training in our field. We are deeply grateful to the Commission members for the tremendous work that went into the creation of this report ..read more

On February 13, 2024, the AMTA Board of Directors received the Final Report of the AMTA Commission on the Education and Clinical Training of 21st Century Music Therapists. This report makes recommendations about the future of education and clinical training in our field. We are deeply grateful to the Commission members for the tremendous work that went into the creation of this report ..read more

As many know the AMTA Archives is housed at Colorado State University. A scrapbook with mold damage was donated to CSU as part of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) special archive collection. The donor received the scrapbook from Florence Tyson (a music therapist in New York from 1958 and 1995 ..read more

Congressman David Scott (GA-13), was joined by Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), and Donald M. Payne Jr. (NJ-10) to introduce the Reimagining Inclusive Arts Education Act. This critical piece of legislation provides professional development grants to arts educators and creative arts therapists to best include students with disabilities ..read more

Megumi joins as the new Associate Editor-Communications for the Journal of Music Therapy. She will be helping to promote journal content through the @AMTAResearch research channels ..read more

Save the date for the 2024 AMTA Symposium which will be held virtually from September 22-25, 2024 with asynchronous access extended through February 2025. Call for papers and reviewers to follow in early March, 2024 ..read more