Obituary of Tony Wigram · 29. June 2011
Professor Tony Wigram has passed away. He peacefully died in his home on june 24.
Tony Wigram has contributed to the field of music therapy not only in Europe but worldwide. He did groundbreaking work as a music therapy clinician as well as a researcher, and created an extraordinary research milieu at the Doctoral Programme in Music Therapy at Aalborg University. He has inspired, acknowledged and supported the doctoral researchers at the Aalborg Programme in the most compassionate way, and is remembered with deep respect, love and admiration by his students and colleagues.
Tony Wigram integrated wisdom, humor, music and improvisational skills in his work and in his way of being.
The words of Abraham Lincoln resonate so well with his life:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.
Tony Wigram was professor in music therapy and head of the doctoral programme at Aalborg University, professor at Anglia Ruskin University, honorary principal research fellow at Melbourne University, Australia, and former president of the European Music Therapy Confederation and the World Federation of Music Therapy.
Our thoughts and deepest sympathy is with his wife, Jenny, and his sons Robert, Michael and David.
“An Englishman in Denmark” - What have I learned from Dansk Musikterapi? by Tony Wigram (pdf)