Welcome Letters

Abstract

This section is a continuum of the welcome letters which were published in the first issue of Approaches (volume 1, issue 1), and in this way the personal greeting and celebration of the journal’s beginning is completed. We invited various colleagues from abroad to write a welcome letter where they could share their thoughts, wishes and dreams with regard to the development of Music Therapy and Special Music Education in Greece, as well as the potential role of Approaches in this development. Each of these colleagues has been, in various ways, in contact with the Greek Music Therapy and/or Special Music Education communities and has actively contributed to their development. In this issue we are delighted to include letters from the following colleagues: Merete Birkebaek (Germany), Lori Custodero (USA), Isabelle FrohneHagemann (Germany), Alison Levinge (UK), Eleanor Richards (UK) και Kay Sobey (UK). Concluding this section, I would like to thank once more all the colleagues who responded to our invitation, by willingly sending their own welcome letter to Approaches. I would also like to express our appreciation to all colleagues from abroad, whose names may not be included here, but who have contributed through their work, each of them in their unique way, to the development of Music Therapy and / or Special Music Education in Greece.