WMI Plus At Home - Music and Healing with Yuval Ron and Helen Sung
WMI PLUS At Home experiences bring music from around the world into the comfort of your home. Renowned artists share their lives, instruments, and stories from their personal environments, bringing an intimacy and uniqueness to each event. These talks are led by fellow musicians, journalists, and ethnomusicologists. Live captioning will be provided during the event.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 – 6:30 PM EST
WMI Plus At Home Experiences are free of charge, but you must register to reserve your space. You will receive an order confirmation once your registration is complete that includes the link to the event. Only registered participants will receive email instructions on how to join the event via Zoom online. Bring your questions! The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with attendees posting their questions electronically for live answers.
Join us for a fascinating conversation diving deep into music and healing with Yuval Ron and Helen Sung.
Yuval Ron is an award-winning composer, artist, educator, peace activist, and record producer. He has been involved in the world of music therapy since a 1990 commission from the Monroe Institute for a music composition incorporating their Hemi-Sync sound technology that uses binaural beats to synchronize the brain’s hemispheres. He has collaborated with neuroscientists and healers and founded Metta Mindfulness Music for healing music. Yuval has performed for notable figures, including the Dalai Lama and Sufi leaders, and lectured at prestigious institutions such as Yale and UCLA.
Helen Sung is a renowned jazz pianist, composer, and Guggenheim Fellow from Houston, Texas. Initially trained in classical music, she discovered jazz at the University of Texas at Austin and became part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance. She won the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition and has performed with notable artists including Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis. Currently, she is a visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an Associate Professor at Columbia University, where she explores the connections between jazz and neuroscience.
Yuval and his ensemble will also perform as a part of WMI’s Sacred Sounds of Healing series on February 21 at Judson Memorial Church, featuring Sufi Master musician Khawaja Ehrari, with Whirling Dervish Tozlu Dede. There will be an additional afternoon workshop delving into the sacred sounds and mindfulness practices from the wisdom traditions of Sufism and Kabbalah.