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What happens when a person enters a space, closes the door, and decides for themselves what to do with what is available to them?

That question lies at the heart of my work as a music therapist.

My name is Eduardo Prado. I am Chilean, and for more than thirty years I have been creating musical experiences with people—in schools, orchestras, and a wide range of educational settings. That journey eventually found a new direction in music therapy, where I trained in Italy as part of the first generation of music therapists to obtain the Diploma Accademico di II Livello—the highest academic qualification established for the discipline in Italy, and the first qualification of its level in the history of Italian music therapy. Today, I work exclusively as a music therapist in a variety of clinical and therapeutic settings throughout the Province of Ancona.

What I present on this website emerges from practice, not from theory.

My approach begins with something that many music therapists will recognize from their own clinical experience, yet which is rarely articulated or theoretically grounded in an explicit way: that the individual’s autonomous gesture—the movement, the sound, the silence that no one requested—is in itself therapeutic. And that music, by virtue of its unique temporal structure, can sustain this process without directing it. This website presents that proposal: its theoretical foundations, its application across highly diverse contexts, and its ongoing development.