In May 2025, I had the privilege of going on a literary tour of Germany and Switzerland at the invitation of my European publishers Kommode Verlag in Zurich and Quanto in Lausanne. With the help of a travel grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, I was able to give my lecture-concert on the brain and music, as well as several book signings in Zurich, Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Lausanne. Many thanks for the generous contribution and welcome from Steinway & Sons in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the Lausanne Conservatory of Music, and the John Lennon Gymnasium in Berlin. This was a unique opportunity to promote my two books, Das Gehirn Und Die Musik (The Brain and Music), published by Kommode Verlag, and Comment la musique transforme le cerveau (How Music Transforms the Brain), published by Quanto.
Here is an excerpt from the lecture-concert held at Steinway-Düsseldorf on May 9, 2025.
Another excerpt from the lecture-concert at the Lausanne Conservatory of Music on May 14, 2025.
Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) also reported on my visit to Switzerland with two radio interviews. The first was for the daily lunchtime program—12:30 p.m.—on May 13, 2025, and the second was a long interview available as a podcast on the Micro sciences program platform.
https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2025/audio/cerveau-et-musique-qui-influence-qui-28902325.html