Wednesday, February 17 @ 7pm - Tickets $25 which includes reception
Did you ever wonder why you love (or don't love) music? Or where music comes from? Or how the brain recognizes music? Or if music can help the brain develop or improve healthy brain aging? Dr. Larry Sherman, a musical neuroscientist, offers answers to these questions as well as insights into some of the most exciting brain research in recent years – the connection between music, brain development and the ways music can prevent or delay brain aging.
This special lecture/concert is dedicated to the memory of Valerie Layton, who was a long time supporter of the Portland Chamber Orchestra and of the music community in Portland. Featuring: Dr. Larry S. Sherman, Ph.D., neuroscientist, Valerie Day, Singer & Musicians from the Portland Chamber Orchestra.
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www.portlandchamberorchestra.com
Dr. Larry Sherman received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from OHSU in 1993. After three years of post-doctoral research at the Institut für Genetik in Karlsruhe, Germany, he joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He returned to Portland six years ago and is now a Senior Scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center and a Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at OHSU. He has over 60 publications in the areas of nervous system development, neurodegeneration, and neuro-oncology, with a focus on ways to promote the repair of brain white matter in patients with multiple sclerosis and during normal aging. He has played piano since the age of four, and has been in numerous blues, rock and jazz groups.
Dynamic and self assured,
Valerie Day has a voice that is evocative of another time, yet refreshingly modern. Gifted singer, skilled percussionist, in-demand session player and passionate advocate for arts education, Valerie is an artist of rare talent and dedication. First appearing on the world’s stage in the 80’s with the Pop/R&B band
NU SHOOZ, she has since performed and recorded with a wide spectrum of artists ranging including the Oregon Symphony, guitarist Dan Balmer, pianist
Darrell Grant, celebrated jazz artist David Frishberg, and many others.
The
Portland Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1947 by Finnish composer and conductor, Boris Sirpo, who came to Portland after leaving his war-torn native country, and the orchestra was initially composed entirely of his music students at Lewis and Clark College. Now one of America’s oldest chamber orchestras, the commitment to quality performances of innovative repertoire was instilled from the beginning. Yaacov Bergman joined the orchestra in 2002, and under his leadership it has developed its distinctive timbre and a new focus of a fusion of art forms, while bringing to audiences World, American and Northwest Premieres.
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