Mindfulness & Music
Mindfulness & Music
The performer will spontaneously create music from various genres including jazz and classical in a live musical meditation. Emotions and moods will be expressed in sounds that evolve, ebb and flow. Dr. Elizabeth English, the Cambridge University Mindfulness Practitioner, will lead the audience in a mindfully interactive participation. Join us for this unusual experience, and have your inmost thoughts turned into a piece of music! This event is part of the launch of the University of Cambridge Alumni Group - Mindfulness After Cam.
Speakers
Gregory Drott (Pembroke 2005)
Gregory is a Britten-Pears Young Artist and an alumnus of the Georg Solti Accademia for répétiteurs in Florence. He combines work as a freelance pianist and organist with the post of Director of Music at St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, London; he also holds a Research Council award for part-time PhD studies at Cambridge, and rows for Pembroke. He is a member of the contemporary chamber music collective Ensemble Matisse.
Dr Elizabeth English
Dr Elizabeth English began meditating as a student in 1983. Three decades later, she was appointed as Cambridge University’s first ever Mindfulness Practitioner. Her courses are the subject of research published in The Lancet showing significant benefit to students, and are now also offered more widely online (www.elizabethenglish.life). Elizabeth draws on four decades of personal meditation practice and her ordination within a Western Buddhist tradition, as well as her doctoral research at Oxford, where she studied Buddhist meditation texts. She is also a certified teacher of Focusing, Somatic Experiencing and Nonviolent Communication. She spends much of her time singing and writing, both poetry and prose.
Booking information
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