Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo is currently a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK. She is also an associated lecturer in music at University of Cambridge. Her current research is exploring the application of music-based interventions to support maternal mental health across different cultural contexts in Africa and the UK. She has worked with various policymakers, charities, and health organisations to promote maternal mental health in the educational and health policy agendas. She also worked for two years as a research assistant in the research team at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity.

Neta Spiro is a Reader in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music and an honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. She was previously Head of Research at Nordoff Robbins, London. She was Research Fellow at the New School for Social Research, New York and Royal Holloway, University of London. Neta taught at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Neta explores the potential role of music in peoples' health and wellbeing and the levels of shared understanding possible across a variety of forms of music making.

Stephen Clift, BA, PhD, PFRSPH, is Professor Emeritus, Canterbury Christ Church University, and former Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health. He is a Professorial Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and is also Visiting Professor in the International Centre for Community Music, York St John University. Stephen has worked in the field of health promotion and public health for over thirty years, and has made contributions to research, practice and training on HIV/AIDS prevention, sex education, international travel and health and the health promoting school in Europe. Since 2000 he has pursued research in arts and heath and particularly the potential value of group singing for health and wellbeing. Stephen was one of the founding editors of the journal Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice.

Ian Cross is Professor and Director of the Centre for Music and Science in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Wolfson College in the UK. His early work helped set the agenda for the study of music cognition; he has since published widely in music and science, his work ranging across psychoacoustics, experimental archaeology, neuroscience, evolutionary theory and clinical applications of music. He is currently investigating whether common processes underpin music and speech as interactive media. He is Editor-in-Chief of Music & Science and is a classical guitarist.

Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, in the Department of Sociology/Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. She has been a Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology since 2004 and is a Fellow of the British Academy. Tia works as a music sociologist, mostly focused on health and wellbeing. She works in the area of sociological theory but is very committed to empirical research and to the values of 'gentle empiricism' and 'slow' sociology. With Gary Ansdell, she is currently co-editing the series Music & Change: Ecological Perspectives.

Tamsin Dives studied Music Therapy in 2005 after a long career as a professional opera singer. Latterly, her work has been based at Christopher's Hospice, more recently managing the Arts team there. Much of the work involved facilitating creative projects between patients at the hospice and other organisations. At the hospice she established a large community choir and a monthly professional concert series. She also helped create an annual conference for Art Therapists and Artists working in the field of palliative care. She has written chapters with a focus on End-of-Life Care and the final stages of Dementia.

Nicola Dunbar completed her Masters in Music Therapy at Nordoff Robbins London Centre, UK in 2001. Since then, she has worked as a music therapist in schools, nurseries and a music therapy clinic with children, adolescents and their parents and carers. Nicola has also worked in adult and elderly mental health settings. She recently trained as a child psychotherapist.

Shannon de l'Etoile, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Miami, Frost School of Music. Previously she taught music therapy at the University of Iowa and at Colorado State University (CSU) where she was also a research associate for the Center for Biomedical Research in Music. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from CSU and her doctorate from the University of Kansas. Dr. de l'Etoile's research explores infant response to music, including infant-directed singing in typical and clinical populations, as well as infant movement response to auditory rhythm.

Camilla Farrant MA (Cantab), MMT-NR, Dip.ABRSM, is Head Music Therapist and founder of the Music Therapy Tree in the UK, an organisation which specialises in providing music therapy to children in schools with autism, learning disabilities and EBD, and provides choir projects to vulnerable communities. She read Music at Christ's College, Cambridge University, followed by a Master's in Music Therapy at Nordoff Robbins. She worked as a Researcher at the Nordoff Robbins London Centre and on projects with Cambridge University's Department of Music and Science. Camilla has authored articles and research papers on music therapy, empathy and musical interaction, and two specialist books on research evaluation and ethics.

Jo Hockley, OBE, PhD, MSc, RN is a senior research fellow in the Primary Palliative Care Research Group at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK. Jo's career as a nurse specialist in palliative care started at St Christopher's Hospice in 1978 where she embraced the importance of holistic care involving the arts. She has worked across different palliative care settings. She set up the Care Home Project Team at St Christopher's Hospice, London (2008 - 2013) and has returned to Edinburgh with the vision for a teaching/research-based care home centre (ToRCH) for SE Scotland.

Katrina McFerran is Professor and Head of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne. Her research has focused on music and adolescents, exploring the potential of group music therapy to foster resilience through a series of investigations in the fields of mental health, chronic illness and disability. She has also investigated music listening by adolescents, particularly focusing on variations in uses of music that are linked to mental health. She has published two books on these topics: Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy (2010) and Creating Music Cultures in Schools (2014).

Tal-Chen Rabinowitch is Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Arts Therapies at the University of Haifa, Israel, where she heads the Music & Social Development Lab. She is interested in understanding the role music plays in children's social and emotional development and the cognitive mechanisms that underlie it. Tal-Chen earned a Ph.D. in Music at the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge, UK, followed by postdoctoral work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Suvi Saarikallio is Associate Professor of Music Education, Docent of Psychology, and Vice-Head (Head of Research) of Department of Music, Art and Culture studies at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research and teaching are in music psychology, music education, and music therapy. Suvi is currently the President of Finnish Society for Music Education (FiSME) and the Secretary General of European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). Suvi approaches music as human behaviour and carries out research on youth development, emotion regulation, learning, and well-being.

Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research at City, UniversityÂof London. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London where she also received her PhD. She is also an affiliated lecturer in music at the University of Cambridge. She has worked with various policymakers, charities, and health organisations to promote maternal mental health in educational and health policy agendas. She also worked for two years as a research assistant in the research team at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity in London.

Neta Spiro is Reader in Performance Science at the Royal College of Music and an honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London. She was previously Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at the New School for Social Research, New York, and Head of Research at Nordoff Robbins, London. Neta taught at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, where she continues as an honorary member. Two questions underlie her research: What is the potential roles of music in peoples' health and wellbeing, and what is communicated when we make music together?

Simon Procter, PhD, is Director of Music Services (Education, Research and Public Affairs) at Nordoff Robbins, London, UK. Simon trained as a music therapist with Nordoff Robbins in London and has since worked primarily within adult mental health services, as well as in the training of music therapists. He has oversight of Nordoff Robbins' education and research activities as well as being active in communicating about our work in the public sphere. Simon as a researcher is primarily an ethnographer, passionate about learning from people's expertise and experiences.

Sandra Trehub, PhD, is a retired Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has conducted extensive research on the role on music in the lives of infants and young children. Her scholarly honours include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (USA). She joined the board of Reaching Out Through Music (soon to be known as St. James Town Community Arts) in 2019 and is currently serving as its chair.

Giorgos Tsiris, PhD, MMT-NR, is a senior lecturer in music therapy at Queen Margaret University and arts lead at St Columba's Hospice Care in Edinburgh, UK. He has worked in diverse palliative care contexts and led award-winning initiatives building musical communities and disrupting societal assumptions about death and dying. Giorgos is the founding editor of Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy and his work has been published widely to include two books on service evaluation and research ethics, respectively, for arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Key research areas include spirituality, end of life care, and evaluation.

Stuart Wood, PhD, was a music therapist and researcher. He lectured frequently in national and international contexts, on music therapy and aspects of medical humanities. His research interests focus on aesthetics of care, using innovative methods from musicology and drama to explore everyday life situations. He completed a Wellcome Trust post-doctoral project in medical humanities, called Aeriel, which has informed a practice-based training programme for carers. In 2017, he was awarded an MBE for his services to music therapy and care.

"This is a fabulous book. Written by some of the world's leading researchers, each chapter is beautifully crafted to convey how music is a fundamental feature of human existence across the whole life. An essential read for anyone interested in the relationship between music and wellbeing." -- Raymond MacDonald, Chair of Music Psychology and Improvisation, University of Edinburgh

"This fascinating book shows how music can enhance and transform care for infants, children, young people, adults, and older people living with a wide range of diverse needs, in different communities across the world." -- Helen Odell Miller, OBE PhD, Professor of Music Therapy, Director Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (CIMTR) at Anglia Ruskin University