Juliette Alvin

Juliette Louise Alvin (1897 – 30 September 1982) was a French-British cellist, viola da gamba player, and pioneering music therapist.

[1] She was born in Limoges, France, and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she was awarded the Premier Prix d'Excellence and the Mèdaille d'Or.

[2] She studied under a master class arrangement with Pablo Casals.

[2] She married William A. Robson, a British academic who became an early and influential scholar of public administration at the London School of Economics,[3] in the year 1929.

Alvin visited Japan in 1967 and 1969, sharing theory and practice with Japanese music therapy pioneers.