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.
Audrey spent many years living in London, writing and recording string arrangements and playing violin and keyboards with musicians from a broad range of genres, including the indie band Jack, the trance band The Morrighan, the Algerian rai singer Abdel Ali Slimani, the performance artist Ebe Oke, and the synthpop band IAMX. She currently performs with the Americana band Myrna and the Bulldog and is the co-concertmaster of The Greenwich Village Orchestra.
After receiving her Master’s degree in music therapy from New York University, 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 with an inpatient psychiatric population at Mount Sinai West Hospital. She currently has a private practice in New York City.
Audrey received her certification as an Analytical Music Therapy practitioner from Benedikte Scheiby’s institute in 2011 and her certification in psychoanalysis from The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in 2025. She is a founding member and current president of the International Association of Analytical Music Therapy. She is a trainer and supervisor at Molloy University’s Analytical Music Therapy certification program. She has presented on psychoanalytic music therapy at Molloy University, the Expressive Arts Therapy Summit, New York University, Lesley University, the Mid-Atlantic region of AMTA, the Nordic Music Therapy Conference, the World Congress of Music Therapy, and the 13th International Bion Conference.
Audrey's compositions have been performed by many organizations including Columbia Composers, Composers Concordance, and Contemporaneous. She was a featured composer in the United Nations Symphony Orchestra's Global Women in Music concert series. She has been an associate director of Composers Concordance since 2025.