Chamber Classics Festival Participant Matteo Bevilacqua Performs at Horizon – Music & Science in Waterloo
One of the distinguished participants of the Chamber Classics Festival recently took the stage at Horizon – Music & Science, a unique event presented by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium. The concert took place on 12 November 2025 as part of the #MuCH Music Season, combining classical music with cutting-edge scientific exploration.
The Horizon – Music & Science performance, titled Mezzocielo, featured classical repertoire presented through an innovative format in which performers played while wearing EEG neural headsets. These devices captured real-time brain activity, which was then translated into projected visual art, creating a multidisciplinary dialogue between music, neuroscience, and visual art.
The concert included works by Frédéric Chopin and Johannes Brahms, performed by the Music Chapel artists alongside scientific insight from Barbara Tillmann, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center whose work explores the beneficial role of music in cognitive health.
Horizon – Music & Science is part of the broader Horizon series, an ongoing initiative of the Music Chapel that invites audiences to experience music in connection with diverse disciplines such as science and visual arts.
