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"Music and Brain" with Prof. Gerd Kempermann and musicians Susanna Kadzhoyan and Werner von Schnitzler
The purpose of this outreach event, to be held at the Forschungszentrum caesar, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2 in Bonn on Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 6:00 pm, is to highlight the positive effect of music on the plasticity of the human brain, and hence the positive effect that brain plasticity has on neurodegenerative disease.
The event will begin with a talk by Prof. Dr. Gerd Kempermann, speaker of the DZNE site Dresden, on the topic “On Jogging and Brain Jogging: How to Keep the Brain Fit”.
Prof. Kempermann received his medical degree in 1993. He then held positions at the University Medical Center Freiburg, the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Californa, the University of Regensburg and moved to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch in 2000. In addition, he headed a Volkswagenstiftung Research Group at the Charité University Medicine and in 2007 he was appointed Professor for Genomics and Regeneration at the Center for Regnerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden. Prof. Kempermann has been the DZNE Site Speaker in Dresden since 2009.
The talk will be followed by a concert with works for piano and violin from Franz Schubert, Leos Janacek and Johannes Brahms.
Susanna Kadzhoyan, pianist, was born in Tashkent and is a graduate of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (2006). Since 2009 she studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Prof. Nina Tichman. Ms. Kadzhoyan has won, amongst other awards, the Georges Cziffra prize. She holds a scholarship of the Georg Solti Fonds and is winner of numerous competitions.
The violinist Werner von Schnitzler (born 1978) studied with Igor Ozim, Pinchas Zukerman, Victor Tretyakov and Harald Schoneweg. He has received numerous first prizes and awards at national and international competitions. As a soloist, he performed in major concert halls in Europe with leading orchestras, amongst others under the direction of Sandor Vegh, Pinchas Zukerman, Gerd Albrecht, Heinrich Schiff and Emmanuel Krivine. He contributed in television and radio broadcasts both at home and abroad. Since 2010 he is fi rst violinist of the “Schnitzler Quartet”. Recently, his CD with sonatas by Johann Wilhelm Wilms appeared under the label Ars Produktion.
Following the event, you are also invited to stay for a short reception.
Location: Forschungszentrum caesar, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 2, 53175 Bonn
Date: Dezember 19th, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Admission: free
Registration via presse(at)dzne.de is desirable but not mandatory.
