Music as Therapy

Alexia Quin Founder and Director

Alexia Quin is a British music therapist who founded Music as Therapy International in 1995. Alexia originally visited Romania as a volunteer for eight months in 1992. With this experience behind her, she felt that skill-sharing might be more effective than volunteering and that music therapy could offer a way to address some of the emotional needs of children and adults at risk in Romania.

Alongside her work for Music as Therapy International, Alexia works as a music therapist in a secondary school for children with severe learning disabilities, for Greenwich Community Health Service in South East London, part of the National Health Service.  She is also a BAMT registered supervisor.

Jane Robbie Projects’ Manager

Jane Robbie has been working with Music as Therapy International since 2000 and is now an integral part of the management team, overseeing all the practical aspects of every project we undertake.

Hannah Hulin Projects' Assistant

 Hannah has recently graduated with a degree in International Development and is looking forward to applying her knowledge and experience to Music as Therapy International. She has volunteered in India working with children with learning disabilities and also ran a weekly music and drama club for adults with learning disabilities in Brighton.

Shannon Perkins Administrator

Shannon is about to qualify as a music therapist, and has previously worked as an administrator in higher education, as well as a guitar instructor and musician. As well as being the administrator, she is responsible for coordinating the Interactive Music-Making Course.

Cathy Rowland Clinical Advisor to Local Partners

Cathy Rowland’s first involvement with Music as Therapy International was in 2002, when she led an introductory music therapy skill-sharing project at a special school in Oradea, north west Romania.  She returned to support the local partners develop their music programme the following year, a programme which is still running to this day.  Since then, Cathy has delivered University lectures for us in Sibiu and co-devised and co-delivered two Additional Training opportunities for our Local Partners in Romania (Autism & Resistance and Training of Trainers). 

She has also consistently supported her original local partners in Oradea, most recently as they developed their own skill-sharing course under her supervision.

Cathy brings a wealth of clinical experience to the role, through her work with children and adults with a range of difficulties including autism, profound and multiple learning disabilities, challenging behaviour, moderate and severe learning and/or emotional difficulties. She also has some experience working with people with acquired brain injury and in delivering mental health projects. She is currently working with adults with learning difficulties in a number of care settings, and with children with autism and profound and multiple learning difficulties at the Palatine School, Worthing.  Cathy is also a BAMT registered clinical supervisor.

Romy Luo Volunteer

We are pleased to welcome Romy Luo as our new Bookkeeper. Romy kindly works on a voluntary basis and has taken over from Carole Hamilton, our Bookkeeper of ten years who retired at the beginning of 2010.

Ramona Blaga Translator

Romanian translator Ramona Blaga has worked with us on an ad-hoc basis over a number of years.