International conference on music and the mind to be held June 6-10 at Rice

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Amy McCaig
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International conference on music and the mind to be held June 6-10 at Rice

HOUSTON – (May 18, 2016) – Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music will host the third international conference on music and the mind June 6-10 on campus.

“Exploring the Mind Through Music” will promote collaboration between musicians and scientists and spur research, as well as increase public interest in this discipline. The public events will include lectures by distinguished researchers and TED-style presentations by conference fellows.

Who: Rice faculty members and visiting faculty members from the University of Cambridge, the University of Arkansas, the University of Montreal, the Eastman School of Music, Colorado State University and the University of Chicago.

What: “Exploring the Mind Through Music” international conference.

When: June 6-10.

Where: Duncan Recital Hall inside Alice Pratt Brown Hall on the campus of Rice University, 6100 Main St.

“I’m excited that the Shepherd School is once again bringing together musicians and scientists in this unique interdisciplinary way,” said Anthony Brandt, an associate professor of composition and theory at Rice and one of the event’s organizers. “Our free public lectures by field leaders — including experts in world music, music therapy, cognition and neuroscience — will delve into fascinating topics such as the role of music in everyday life, its healing powers and our attempts to understand how we listen to and think about this universal feature of human culture.”

Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine and the National Science Foundation are co-sponsors of the event, which is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. For more information, visit www.rice.edu/mindandmusic/index.shtml.

Media interested in attending the event should contact Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist at Rice, at 713-348-6777 or amym@rice.edu.

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