PhD, Professor in Music Therapy, University of Bergen, and Head of Research in GAMUT, The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre. Stige has published on topics such as music therapy improvisation, music education, culture-centered music therapy, and community music therapy. He has published four books in Norwegian and three books in English. The latter are: Culture-Centered Music Therapy (2002), Contemporary Voices in Music Therapy (2002, edited with Carolyn Kenny), and Elaborations toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy (2003). Stige is Norwegian editor of Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and co-editor (with Carolyn Kenny) of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy.