19th Annual NeuroMusic Keynote Lecture and Concert with Peter Vuust Trio

LIVELab Hybrid Concert Series 2023-2024

19th Annual NeuroMusic Keynote Lecture and Concert

Rhythm, Expectation and Emotion

Groove on the Brain

Featured Speaker: Dr. Peter Vuust

Director of the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), Aarhus University, Denmark

Featuring musical performance by the

Peter Vuust Trio

Featuring Tommaso Perazzo and Mikkel Vuust

In-person and LIVEStreamed from the LIVELab

Saturday, October 28th, 2023

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET

Doors open at 7:30 PM

 TICKETS 

In-person General Admission: $30

(Note: Conference Discount Code applies to General Admission Only)

In-person Student Admission: $10

LIVEStream: Free (register to receive link)

Buy Tickets or Register for LIVEStream

Dr. Peter Vuust

Professor Peter Vuust, Ph.D. is a unique combination of a top-level jazz musician and a world class scientist. He leads the Danish National Research Foundation’s center for “Music In the Brain” and holds joint appointments as full professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Music and Dept of Clinical Medicine Aarhus University.

He has published more than 150 scientific papers in high ranking international journals, most recently the review “Music in the brain” in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (March, 2022). He uses state-of-the-art brain scanning techniques such as fMRI, PET, EEG, MEG and behavioral measures and is a world leading expert in the field of music and the brain – a research field he has single-handedly built up in Denmark as leader of the center for Music In the Brain (MIB) currently employing more than 30 researchers. Among many other grants, he has received DKK 98 million (~ US $ 15 million) as PI, from the Danish National Research Foundation.

In addition, Prof Vuust is a renowned jazz bassist and composer; leading the Peter Vuust Quartet with Alex Riel, Lars Jansson and Ove Ingemarsson of which seven records have been released so far. He has also played on more than 100 recordings and been sideman with international jazz stars such as Lars Jansson, Tim Hagans, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman and many more. He is the recipient of the 2009 Jazz Society of Aarhus’ “Gaffel”-prize. His album “September Song” was widely acclaimed by reviewers and received a nomination for a Danish Music Award in 2014. In 2022, he released the album “Further to Fly”, which contained jazz arrangements by Peter Vuust of the Songs of Paul Simon with unanimously excellent reviews.

As professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, he has taught electric and acoustic bass as well as music theory, ear training and ensemble playing. He has given many keynote talks and masterclasses at international conferences and institutions on a wide range of topics ranging from the neuroscience of music to improvisation and composition. He has written three monograph’s “Polyrhythm and –meter in modern jazz; a study of Miles Davis’ Quintet from the 1960s”, “Music on the Brain”, and most recently a book on musical leadership.

Peter Vuust Trio

The Peter Vuust trio feat. Tommaso Perazzo and Mikkel Vuust is an exiting new Denmark, Italy and New York based trio with firm roots in the bebop and swing tradition. The sound of the trio is a unique mix of styles drawing from both the Nordic as well as the American music vocabulary. This evening they will be playing a selection of songs from the great American songbook as well as original compositions.

This concert will be livestreamed and video recorded

 This event is generously supported by incite Foundation for the Arts,

McMaster University Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour