Friday 24th October 2014
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Musicologists, scientists,
medical professionals and performers will debate the questions: how does
performing and listening to music affect the brain? Does it increase your capacity to retain
information? Is there a 'Mozart
effect'? Does music have the power to heal?
Speakers: Prof Jessica
Grahn, Prof Jane Ginsborg, Stephen Johnson, Nigel Osborne, Prof Michael Trimble, Kirsteen Davidson-Kelly and Prof Dale Hesdorffer.
Performers: Ian
Brown piano, James Gilchrist tenor, Anna Tilbrook piano
Full price: £95 / Student (full-time, available on a first come first served basis): £35
Conference programme:
Introduction 10am Ian
Ritchie, Artistic Director
Mozart’s Life and Times Stephen
Johnson
Mozart and Musical Memory Prof
Jessica Grahn
A scientific perspective of Mozart’s fabled memory – a general view of
musical
memory and achievements of other savants.
Memorising Music Chaired
by Prof Jessica Grahn
Kirsteen
Davidson-Kelly, Prof Jane Ginsborg, with Ian Brown, James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook
Different strategies for memorising music, from both instrumental and
vocal perspectives.
What are the key differences between ’learning’ and
‘memorising’?
The “Mozart Effect” Prof
Jessica Grahn
Music, Memory and Cognition Chaired by Prof Michael Trimble
Part I Therapeutic
Applications – Prof Michael Trimble with Nigel Osborne
The benefits of music in treating Dementia and other physical and mental
conditions
Part II Brainwaves and
Sonification
Nigel Osborne with Prof Michael
Trimble and Prof Dale Hesdorffer
How music may affect sleep patterns and brainwave frequencies to treat Epilepsy
Prodigy to Genius: Nature or Nurture?
Stephen Johnson with Prof Jane
Ginsborg and Prof Michael Trimble
New insights into the much-debated question of how musical talent is
developed.
And what do we mean by ‘prodigy’ and ‘genius’?
Panel discussion: all speakers, chaired by
Ian Ritchie
Further reflections on the power of music, prodigy and memory
Concert 7.30pm
James Gilchrist tenor, Ian Brown piano, Anna Tilbrook piano
Bach Concerto for two keyboards in C (movement)
Songs by Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Finzi & Ravel
Mozart Sonata in D for Two Pianos
K448
This event had live subtitles delivered by STAGETEXT, generously supported by the National Association of Deafened People.
