A Tribute to Tony Wigram: 13 August 1953 – 24 June 2011

Professor Tony Wigram passed away in his home on June 24th 2011, aged 57, after almost one year with a growing tumour in his brain.*Almost all music therapy professionals in Europe have heard of Tony Wigram, heard him speak at a conference or as a guest Professor, or read one of his numerous articles or books. Wigram has contributed to the field of music therapy not only in Europe but worldwide. He did groundbreaking work as a music therapy clinician, as well as a teacher and researcher and created an extraordinary research milieu at the Doctoral Programme in Music Therapy at Aalborg University.

Wigram was one of the founders of the European Music Therapy Confederation (EMTC) and served as the first president and later also as president for the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT). He was Professor of Music Therapy and Head of the doctoral programme at Aalborg University, Professor at Anglia Ruskin University and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia.