Music Therapy

Ali ‘Grace’ Rapetti is a music maven- a seasoned vocalist and guitarist who has performed both solo and in a band-capacity for the past two decades. Grace’s passion as coach is in helping her students find their authentic creative voices, whether in singing, on their instruments, or in their original songs. For more than nine years, Grace served as a certified music therapist in end-of-life care where she utilized clinical music to address personalized patient goals. She is the cofounder of the non-profit organization Arts Education International, which provides sustainable, community-based arts programs for orphaned, abandoned, and traumatized children all over the world. She earned the Walter W. Harp Liberal Arts Music and Society Award from the Berklee College of Music, which recognized her outstanding service to the music community at large. Grace holds two music related degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Berklee College of Music, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Two of her original songs are used as world-wide online course material, and her song and tutorial on "For Amelia" has been published in Writer's Digest. She is featured in Rolling Stone and on NPR for her version of Beck’s “Old Shanghai (click on hyperlink: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/song-reader-20121228). She was a five-year member of the remarkable Boston-based ensemble, Women of the World, and was also a singer in the rock group, Big D and the Kids Table. Grace has sung at Carnegie Hall, performed for the United Nations, written music with John Mayer, created a song for UNICEF,  is a certified Disney female vocal artist featured on T-Mobile ringtones, and shared stages with Bobby McFerrin, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Angelique Kidjo, The Eagles, Allison Krauss, Willie Nelson, Carol King, and Annie Lennox.