Bio

Audrey Morse, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, is a music therapist, psychotherapist, violinist, and composer. A native of New York City, she studied violin with Margaret Pardee and Shirley Givens. She studied composition and orchestration with Otto Luening, George Tsontakis, and Justin Dello Joio. She was the mathematics prize winner at Barnard College, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.  She spent part of her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge where she completed Part I of the mathematical tripos.

Audrey spent a decade living in London where she worked as a violinist and string arranger for many bands and ensembles. She was a member of the band Jack, and played violin, keyboards, and wrote the string arrangements for their critically acclaimed album “Pioneer Soundtracks.” She also performed with The Morrighan, Abdel Ali Slimani, Ebe Oke, IAMX, and as a member of the I Maestri Orchestra. She is currently the concertmaster of the Greenwich Village Orchestra and performs with the band Myrna and the Bulldog.

After receiving her Master’s degree in music therapy from New York University in 2006, Audrey worked as a music therapist with a neurologically impaired population at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, with a geriatric dementia population at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, and for 13 years she was a Senior Creative Arts Therapist at Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt) Hospital’s inpatient psychiatric unit.

She received her certification as an Analytical Music Therapy (AMT) practitioner from Benedikte Scheiby’s institute in 2011, and she is a founding member and current preisdent of the International Association of Analytical Music Therapy. She maintains a private music therapy and psychotherapy practice in New York City, and she is a trainer and supervisor of Analytical Music Therapy students at Molloy University’s AMT certification program. She is currently a psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Audrey has presented on AMT at Molloy University, the Expressive Arts Therapy Summit, New York University, Lesley University, the Mid-Atlantic region of AMTA, and at the World Congress of Music Therapy. Her writing on AMT appears in Scheiby’s chapter “Analytical music therapy” in Barbara Wheeler’s Music Therapy Handbook, Guildford Publications, 2015, and in Scheiby’s chapter “Music, the key to survival, consciousness, and transformation” in Johannes Eschen’s book Zu den Anfängen der Musiktherapie in Deutchland, L. Reichert, pub., 2010.