curation: Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro
Scientific Committee António Damásio, Barbara Tillmann, Hanna Damásio, Maria Majno, Nuno Sousa, Stefan Kölsch
Co-production DSCH – Associação Musical, Teatro Nacional São João, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
On November 11 and 12, 2021, the opening concerts of the new cycle MUSIC4L-MENTE will take place in Porto and Lisbon. This cycle explores the intersection between music and neuroscience through chamber music concerts preceded by scientific preludes on the relationship between music and the brain.
Between November 2021 and June 2022, four outstanding String Quartets – Michelangelo, Hermès, Cosmos, and Gropius – make their debut in Portugal and perform landmark works by great composers, while four renowned international guests and researchers introduce themes on the intimate (physiological, therapeutic) relationship between music (sound, noise) and the brain. It is in the brain that music happens, and it is there that we interpret it. The concerts following the scientific preludes challenge us by placing music in the mind, which we will access more alert and informed.
The four programs of MUSIC4L-MENTE, a cycle of remarkable international significance, both musically and scientifically, take place in November, January, April, and June in Porto, at the Monastery of São Bento da Vitória, and in Lisbon, at the Thalia Theatre.
MUSIC4L-MENTE is a partnership between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the National Theatre São João, and the DSCH Musical Association, curated by the pianist Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro.
Concerts:
🗓️ 11 November 2021
📍 Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Oporto
🗓️ 12 November 2021
📍 Teatro Thalia, Lisbon
Michelangelo Quartet
Mihaela Martin (Violin)
Conrad Muck (Violin)
Michael Barenboim (Viola)
Frans Helmerson (Cello)
&
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (Piano)
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Tcherepnin e Robert Schumann
Cientific prelude: “Neurosciences and music: From basic research to implications for education, society and health” with Prof. Barbara Tillmann (University of Lyon, France)
🗓️ 24 February 2022
📍 Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Oporto
🗓️ 25 February 2022
📍 Teatro Thalia, Lisbon
Hermès Quartet
Omer Bouchez (Violin)
Elise Liu (Violin)
Lou Yung-Hsin Chang (Viola)
Yan Levionnois (Cello)
Works by Franz Schubert
Cientific prelude: “Music-evoked emotions: kinetics and dynamics in the brain” with Prof. Nuno Sousa (Universidade do Minho)
🗓️ 21 April 2022
📍 Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Oporto
🗓️ 22 April 2022
📍 Teatro Thalia, Lisbon
Cosmos Quartet
Helena Satué (Violin)
Bernat Prat (Violin)
Lara Fernández (Viola)
Oriol Prat (Cello)
Works by Robert Schumann e Maurice Ravel
Cientific prelude: “Gender and Music. The promising sound of new water under old bridges” with Prof. Maria Majno (Vice President of the Mariani Foundation for Pediatric Neurology, Italy)
🗓️ 2 junho 2022
📍 Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, Oporto
🗓️ 3 junho2022
📍 Teatro Thalia, Lisbon
Gropius Quartet
Friedemann Eichhorn (Violin)
Indira Koch (Violin)
Alexia Eichhorn (Viola)
Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (Cello)
&
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (Piano)
Works by Felix Mendelssohn, Fazil Say e Antonín Dvořák /
Cientific prelude: “What happens in the brain and the body when music surprises us?” with Prof. Stefan Kölsch (University of Bergen, Norway)
More information: https://www.tnsj.pt/pt/espetaculos/6224/music4l-mente
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