Music Therapist · Teacher · Mentor

Lightness
is a choice.

35 years on the path of music therapy. Tenured teacher at the Conservatory of Verona, author, podcaster. I guide students, colleagues, and curious individuals to discover music therapy with depth and without the extra weight.

Community Music Therapy Songwriting Neurologic Music Therapy
Paolo Alberto Caneva, musicoterapeuta — ritratto pensieroso
Paolo Alberto Caneva a braccia incrociate

Here he is!!! Paolo.
My name is Paolo!


I have traveled for thirty years through the territories of music therapy and in this endless journey I have drawn maps, written travel diaries, taken videos and photos. I traveled on foot but often I took trains, planes, ships, bicycles, hot air balloons and with each of these means I approached fragments of truth.

Initially I thought all this fuss was aimed at becoming the best... then year after year, step by step I started to realize that the real engine moving my life was indeed enormous curiosity but the focus of the research was me.

My complete story →

Four worlds,
one direction

The border zone between music and therapy — not as a limit, but as a generative place for innovation.

Community Music Therapy

Music as social glue. Participation, inclusion, neighborhood and community music therapy. "Doing together" as therapy.

Songwriting

Composing songs as a therapeutic strategy. Author of the first Italian monograph on the subject (Armando Editore, 2007).

Neurologic Music Therapy

Trained with Michael Thaut. Cognitive stimulation with music on a neuroscientific basis. Rigor and creativity together.

Mentoring

35 years of experience to share. For students, colleagues, and curious people. Without dogmatism, with lightness.

A Light-Hearted Journey Through Music Therapy


37 episodes. 9 months of journey. A voice that tickles thoughts. Not a tutorial, not a course — a gym for music therapy thinking.

From the definition of music therapy to feuds between colleagues, from VAT numbers to the beauty of beginnings. All with lightness.

All episodes Listen on Spotify

Download my volumes

Four Creative Commons publications. Free, for everyone. Because knowledge doesn't need a price tag.

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Il Lato B della Musicoterapia

What textbooks don't tell you

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Diventare Musicoterapeuta Esperto

The guide for those who are serious

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Proposta di Legge

Health professional music therapist

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Professione Musicoterapeuta

The professional landscape in Italy