SPECIAL EVENTS

Rice University - Shepherd School of Music presents Exploring the Mind Through Music, Friday through Sunday, March 27 through March 29. The conference will bring together distinguished scientists, composers and musicians to discuss music's role in human cognition and behavior.

Speakers include:

Dr. Jonathan Berger, Co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts at Stanford University
Dr. Anthony Brandt, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at the Shepherd School of Music
Dr. David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. David Huron, Professor of Musicology at Ohio State University
Dr. Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music Composition at Columbia University
Dr. Isabelle Peretz, Co-director of the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound at the University of Montreal
Sarah Rothenberg, reknowned pianist and Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston
Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Neuroimaging Laboratory of Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ron Tintner, Department of Neurology of Methodist Hospital
Dr. Mark Tramo, Director of the Institute for Music & Brain Science at Harvard 

All events are free and open to the public.

The event is co-sponsored by Dean Robert Yekovich and the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University's Humanities Research Center, the Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Methodist Hospital, and Rice University's Office of the President through a grant from the University's Faculty Initiatives Fund

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Click here for a schedule of events.