Music and Mental Health in Lockdown

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How should musicians react to the challenges of life in lockdown as we pass the 1-year anniversary of COVID-19? With the loss of our normal opportunities for community music-making, difficulty in accessing practice instruments, and the ongoing anxiety of watching the pandemic unfold, the events of the past year have taken a significant psychological toll for performing artists. We’ll be joined by Marilyn Lerner, an internationally-acclaimed jazz pianist and composer based in Toronto who is also a practicing psychoanalyst. Marilyn will offer her perspective on the challenges of life in lockdown based on her clinical practice as well as her own experience as a performer, and will reflect on her unique career at the intersection of music and psychotherapy.

At the request of the Toronto Centre, this recording is intended for RCCO members only and not for viewing by the general public.