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Funded by UCL and the British Library Role: Lecturer, composer, performer Collaborators: Dr. Joern Diedrichsen and Professor Vincent Walsh (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), Dr. Mark Edwards (Institute of Neurology), Matthias Sperling (Royal Opera House), British Library. A lecture-recital at the British Library, investigating the neuroscience of music and creativity. For this project, I underwent MRI scanning while mimicking gestures made during performance, a film was made of a live performance to show brain activity during jazz performance. The lecture-recital also included a paper on virtuosity and musical learning all delivered to a sold-out audience at the British Library conference centre on March 16th 2012. http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event128992.html A video of the event is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSwZMqGnww&feature=player_embedded and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSwZMqGnww&feature=player_embedded