Sound Health: Renew/Remix
Executive Producer: Jeff Tang
Executive Producer: Oded Lev-Ari
Associate Producer: Paige Lester
Producer & Artistic Advisor at Large: Renée Fleming
A 2-day summit at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC designed to illustrate the power of music in helping us navigate the “new normal” we’ve been thrust into after two years of pandemic. Hosted by soprano Renée Fleming and Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, the summit convened a concert featuring a roster of world-class artists in performance and conversation with music therapists, researchers, and scientists, including esperanza spalding, Eric Whitacre, Regina Carter, Dessa, Michela’s Love Movement, the Children’s Chorus of Washington, Howard University’s Afro Blue, violin prodigy Caesar Sant, and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy.
The concert was followed by a full day of free activations around music and mental health at the REACH facility, featuring panel discussions with broadcaster/writer Clemency Burton-Hill, Radiolab’s Molly Webster, leaders from the Black Music Therapy Network, Latin American Music Therapy Network, Darkness RISING Project, and members of the NIH. Music workshops with Eric Whitacre x Afro Blue, esperanza spalding, and Grammy-winning musician and activist Quetzal Flores were followed by a premiere film screening of MUSIC VETS with a director Q&A.
About Sound Health
Launched in 2016 under the leadership of Renée Fleming and Dr. Francis Collins, Sound Health is a partnership between the Kennedy Center and National Institutes of Health, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sound Health Network/UC San Francisco. The goal of Sound Health is to promote the intersection of music, health, and wellness.
October 2 - 3, 2022
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
Sound Heals
Official Launch Event of the Sound Health Network
Co-Executive Producers: Jeff Tang & Oded Lev-Ari
Editor: Sophia Peer
Audio Engineer: Brian Montgomery
Hosted by: Renée Fleming
Co-Executive Producer
Produced during the throes of the COVID-19 lockdown, this virtual launch event featured Dr. Sanjay Gupta, esperanza spalding, Renée Fleming, Dr. Francis Collins (director of the NIH), and more. Sound Heals is the official launch event of the Sound Health Network, which aims to promote research and public awareness about the impact of music on health and wellness.
The Sound Health Network (SHN) is a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts with the University of California, San Francisco in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Renée Fleming, the Center’s artistic advisor.
