Welcome Letters

Abstract

Note of the Editor-in-Chief:

Giving a personal greeting to Approaches and celebrating its beginning, but also stressing the importance of developing international partnerships, we created a ‘Welcome Letters’ section which will continue on the second issue of the journal. We invited various colleagues from abroad to write a welcome letter where they could share their thoughts and perspectives concerning the future development of Music Therapy and Special Music Education in Greece, as well as the potential role of Approaches in this development. In the first issue of Approaches we are honoured to include letters from: Leslie Bunt (UK), Harald Goll (Germany), Nigel Hartley (UK), Jackie Robarts (UK), Brynjulf Stige (Norway), Alan Turry (USA) and Tony Wigram (Denmark). Each of these colleagues has been, in various ways, in contact with the Music Therapy and/or Special Music Education communities in Greece and has contributed to their development. So, once again, we thank them for their support and the inspiration that they continue to offer us!