Join in an hour free hour of guided meditation and live music on traditional Korean instruments presented with Lincoln Center at the intimate Griffin Sidewalk Studio inside the New York Philharmonic’s beautifully redesigned David Geffen Hall. Dooyi Yoon Sook Park is one of Korea’s foremost practitioners on the gayageum, a plucked string instrument. She will be joined by Jung Bae Park on dans and Vong Park on jango in this mesmerizing recital.

UPDATE: DUE TO ILLNESS, there will be no meditation moderated by Beginner’s Ear founder and music critic (New York Times, Wall Street Journal) Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.

Admission is free and on a first-come first-served basis. For more information visit Lincoln Center’s website.

Parker Ramsay is a performer, writer and public speaker. Equally at home on modern and period harps, he pursues his passions in tackling new and underperformed works and bringing his instrument to new audiences.

In 2020, his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations was praised as “remarkably special” (Gramophone), “nuanced and insightful” (BBC Music Magazine), “relentlessly beautiful” (WQXR), and “marked by a keen musical intelligence” (Wall Street Journal). His last album, released in October 2022, features The Street, a new concert-length work for solo harp and text by Nico Muhly and Alice Goodman.

For the music meditation at Teatown Lake, Parker will perform old and new music for harp. The meditation is moderated by longtime New York Times contributing music critic and Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.

$25/$20 Tickets available on the Teatown website or in person at the visitor center.

Join other New Yorkers after work for a restorative “hush hour” meditation concert featuring guided mindfulness and live music by two rising stars, flutist Brandon Patrick George and harpist Parker Ramsay. The free event is offered as part of Lincoln Center’s Wellness Wednesdays throughout the summer at the Rubenstein Atrium. For more details visit Lincoln Center.

PLEASE NOTE: There is no late seating for this event.

Bliss out with mindfulness and live music in nature during this special Sunday morning outdoor event featuring guided meditation and a live performance by Violinist Johnny Gandelsman, who will weave together recent works by Tomeka Reid and Christina Courtin as well as selections from the Bach cello suites arranged for violin.

Johnny is stepping in at short notice for George Meyer, who has had to cancel due to Covid.

The meditation is led by Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. A short Q&A on music, mindfulness and improvisation concludes the event.

$20/$25 tickets for sale at Teatown.org.

Ahead of Mental Health Day, the American Society for Composers, Arrangers and Performers (ASCAP) hosts a live music meditation on the concept of Beginner’s Mind with violinist Todd Reynolds. Guided meditation and moderated conversation by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. Tune in on Instagram Live @ascap and make space for a little mindful break in the middle of your day!

Photo of Todd by Lynn Lane.

Clavichords are some of the most beautiful keyboard instruments ever built — and the most quiet. For many Baroque composers the clavichord was an instrument for practice, improvisation and composition. In performance, its sound can seem shockingly fragile.

In this special event, held in the elegant gallery of a rare books dealer, Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim joins the celebrated harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani for a recital of clavichord music by J.S. Bach as well as some of his predecessors and sons. Audiences members are invited to take part in a short mindfulness practice designed to deepen the silence, so that every exquisite note can be heard.

This salon is part of the 92Y’s festival The Bach-Mendelssohn Connection, which runs from June 1-10. For tickets visit 92Y.

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Recenter mind and spirit with mindfulness and gorgeous music in the stunning natural setting of Teatown Lake in Ossining, Westchester. A guided meditation helps participants fine-tune their ears for the ensuing live performance by cellist Gabriel Cabezas, winner of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and a performer of uncommon passion and eloquence.

The meditation is led by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, founder of Beginner’s Ear. A short Q&A with audience members on aspects of mindful listening closes the event.

$20/$25 tickets for sale at Teatown.org.

Portrait of Gabriel Cabezas by Shervin Lainez

Recenter your mind and fine-tune your ear with a live music meditation in nature. The shimmering beauty of Teatown Lake forms the backdrop for this special outdoor event combining guided meditation and a live performance by Grammy-nominated flutist Brandon Patrick George, “a knockout musician with a gorgeous sound.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) The program features music from the 18th century and recent compositions that draw on the flute’s full expressive range and its uncanny ability to transform the human breath into beauty.

The meditation is led by Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. A short Q&A on mindfulness, breath and music concludes the event.

For tickets please visit Teatown.org

Photo by Marco Borggreve

Reclaim your focus and inner peace with this hourlong program featuring guided meditation and a live performance of exquisite new music by pianist Eunbi Kim. Praised for the “liquid elegance” of her playing and the “passion, command and great warmth” of her artistry, Eunbi will perform works written for her by Sophia Jane and Daniel Bernard Roumain — music that unfolds its full power in a space of deep communal stillness.

Meditation guided by Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.

Watch this space and LincolnCenter.org for ticket links coming soon.

Portrait of Eunbi by Shervin Lainez

The beautiful 17th-century Uilenburg Synagogue plays host to a very special Beginner’s Ear session featuring string quartet music by leading chamber players and a guided mindfulness practice led by Mirjam Hartkamp, a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition. The event is moderated by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, a longtime contributing classical music critic for the New York Times, and presented in collaboration with Splendor, Amsterdam.

BECAUSE OF DUTCH COVID REGULATIONS THIS EVENT IS NOW CANCELED.

For full details on performers and links to ticket sales revisit this page in late August.

New and old music for violin and cello — alone and together — weave together into a unique sonic journey for this meditation concert in nature starring violinist Rubén Rengel and cellist Thomas Mesa, held in Caramoor’s enchanting Sunken Garden. The program features music by Andrea Casarrubios, Jessye Montgomery, Reinhold Glière, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim leads the meditation and moderates the Q&A.

For tickets, follow this link to Caramoor.

The shimmering beauty of Teatown Lake Reservation provides the stunning backdrop for this Sunday morning concert meditation featuring new and old music for various combinations of violin, viola and guitar. Violinist and violist Josh Henderson has been enjoying a multi-faceted career as a composer and performer who is equally at home in the worlds of classical music, jazz, rock and hip-hop. Performance Today considers Jordan Dodson “one of the top young guitarists of his generation.”

The meditation is led by Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. For tickets visit https://www.teatown.org/events/tune-your-ear/

Alexi Kenney is one of the most original voices among rising violin stars. Hear him in an intimate meditation concert on the beautiful grounds of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts that includes music by Hildegard von Bingen, Johann Sebastian Bach and Kaija Saariaho.

The mindfulness practice is led by Beginner’s Ear founder Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. A Q&A with Alexi and audience members closes the event.

For tickets, visit Caramoor here.

Elevate your Sunday with a morning music meditation held outside the chapel of Verde Valley School with the magnificent Cathedral Rock as backdrop. Follow a short guided meditation, then drop into the mesmerizing sounds of traditional folk melodies from Afghanistan arranged for viola and cello by the cellist Avery Waite, who traveled and taught in that country.

For ticket inquiries please send a message using the contact form by Saturday, June 12, 2021

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Expressive, stylistically polyglot and well-versed in improvisation, PubliQuartet is one of the most innovative ensembles on the scene. Here they spin a web of connections across time with fresh takes on the music by Hildegard of Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Chiara Cozzolani and Dvorak, along with a rendition of the elegiac “Lyric” by George Walker.

The meditation is led by Thomas Droge, a Daoist teacher and founder of the Pathfinder Institute. The event is hosted and moderated by Beginner’s Ear founder and New York Times classical-music music writer Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.

$20 tickets on sale here through Caramoor.

Enlighten your Sunday morning with guided meditation and live chamber music in the gorgeous sunken garden at Caramoor as the violinist Elena Kawazu and the violist Jordan Bak, two rising stars, play music by composers including Martinu, Mozart and Jeffrey Mumford.

The meditation is led by Adreanna Limbach, author of the enchanting book Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy. Amadi Azikiwe, music director of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra, hosts and moderates.

$20 tickets on sale here.

(Photo of Jordan Bak by Natalia Vilela)

Enlighten your Sunday morning with guided meditation and live chamber music inside the bucolic gardens of Caramoor. Two stars from the New York Philharmonic, the principal clarinetist Anthony McGill and the principal harpist Nancy Allen, weave together a mesmerizing program of works that toy with our notion of time and space.

The meditation is led by Adreanna Limbach, author of “Tea and Cake with Demons: a Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy” and a sought after teacher at retreats, online, and at MNDFL.

The event is moderated by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, founder of Beginner’s Ear and contributing classical music critic at the New York Times.

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Rebalance mind and spirit with guided meditation and live music that lets you experience the genius of Bach as if from inside the creative process. Dan Tepfer is one of the leading jazz pianists of our time, acclaimed also for his innovative engagement with baroque music.

Bach's keyboard Inventions are works of filigree delicacy and cosmic sweep. This online program begins with a 15-minute guided meditation. Out of the resulting deep stillness the music of Bach emerges and enters a conversation across centuries with Tepfer's own improvisations.

A short reflection, in conversation with Dan and online participants, explores the intersection of mindfulness, listening, and creativity.

The meditation is led by Thomas Droge, founder of the Pathfinder Institute. The event is curated and moderated by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim. Proceeds go to the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund to support their initiatives in the fight against racial injustice.