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November 16, 2026

The USC Center for Music, Brain and Society warmly invites you to a special session featuring Professor Ken Perlman and Professor Ron McCurdy.

The Jazz of Leadership: An Interactive Workshop

A live jazz band, along with Ron and Ken, will demonstrate different leader-team dynamics in ways you can see, hear, and feel. Jazz is how each band member is individually empowered to improvise while collectively committed to staying united, even as things are changing constantly. No musical training or knowledge is needed to experience and apply the lessons from this session.

This event will be held in-person on the UPC Campus.

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Past Events

Check out various events the Center for Music, Brain and Society has hosted. We have hosted a variety of events including faculty talks, book talks and symposium around the intersection of arts, health and research.

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Guest faculty, Dr. Patricia Campbell visits us to give a special lecture on music, education and culture.

Dr. Will Coppola’s book launch featuring his new book Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility.

Workshop on music and the brain in collaboration with KUSC.

Student from NPR’s From the Top playing the piano while wearing an EEG headset at the our Music and the Brain concert collaboration.

From the Top Students enjoying the reception after the recital.

Reflections with Dean Jason King and Renée Fleming. Moderated by Gail Eichenthal.

Delirium Musicum performing a music interlude at the 2024 Segil Symposium.

A peek at the talks given at the 2024 research workshop on music, health, and policy.