Lars Ole Bonde, PhD, FAMi is a professor in music therapy at Aalborg University (DK) and professor II at Center for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music (N). He is a certified music therapist and clinical supervisor. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as music and concert producer. He served as associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy until 2017. His current research projects include music and public health, music therapy for people suffering from schizophrenia, and monographs on the Danish composers Bent Lorentzen and John H�ybye. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles on the theory and practice of music therapy, music psychology, music education, music theatre–and music and health.

T�res Theorell, MD, PhD is a professor emeritus at the Karolinska Institute. He served as a clinician (cardiology, internal medicine, occupational medicine, and social medicine) from 1967 to 1990. He became a professor, from 1995 also director, of psychosocial medicine in 1980 at the National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine in Stockholm. At the same time, he was appointed professor of psychosocial medicine at the Karolinska Institute. Since his retirement in 2006, he has served as a scientific consultant at the Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University. His stress research has been focused on physiological mechanisms, epidemiological observations, and controlled intervention studies. He has been doing research on culture and health since the 1980s, mainly in the music area. He has written more than 450 articles in international scientific journals and authored and edited several