Andrea Intveen
Andrea Intveen is a qualified music therapist who completed the MA in Music Therapy here in 2002. Since graduation she has worked in various special schools for children with a range of learning disabilities and physical disabilities. Prior to her studies at the IWA she qualilfied as a social worker in Freiburg, Germany in 1993. She lived in Ireland from 1994 to 2006, and for some time worked in two Camphill Communities in Counties Wexford and Kilkenny. Her PhD is concerned with the anthroposophical music therapy approach she encountered in these communities.
Andrea moved to Berlin in early 2007, where she took up a post as a scientific assistant in the music therapy department of the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work includes teaching students in the Berlin MA in Music Therapy (music skills relevant for music therapy, supervision), as well as continuing her research at UL.
Andrea plays various instruments including classical guitar and piano, and her primary musical training is in voice. During her MA here she took voice lessons with Sinead Blanchfield and she was a member of Lucernarium. While working as a music therapist in a special school in Cork, Andrea took voice lessons with Hilary Reynolds and sang with the ensemble “Madrigal 75”. Back in Germany, Andrea has rediscovered her fondness for French traditional music and plays and sings in various ensembles in the Berlin folk music scene.
From 2002 to 2006 Andrea was the music skills tutor in the MA in Music Therapy programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.
To contact Andrea:
04 February, 2008
