Anna Vilenskaya in Luxembourg 10 April 2026

Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer and popularizer of classical and contemporary music. She is able to talk about complex things simply, entertainingly and with humor, helping listeners to hear music in a new way and understand how it works.

Lecture topic: Musical Hearing: Instruction Manual

It's not uncommon to hear the phrase, "I don't have a musical ear" or "a bear stepped on my ear". Maybe you even once uttered it yourself. In reality, this is not the case: all hearing people develop a complex set of musical hearing components in the first few years of life. If you think that everyone has it, but you don't - come to the lecture and let's experiment together on your sense of fret and relative hearing.
We will check whether you have musical synesthesia - a phenomenon in which sounds turn into colors, and find out whether we see chords in the same colors. After the lecture, you will leave with an understanding of how to train your musical ear, how to use it properly, and most importantly, with the feeling that no bear has stepped on your ear.