Music and Meditation

June 28, 2026

San Francisco Classical Voice Substack

A cellist and a neuroscientist walked into a bar … no, it’s not the beginning of a bad joke. It was, in fact, the start of an intimate partnership between music and science, love and work, and an ongoing conversation that has meandered through life for over four decades and given rise to joint ventures of creating workshops and parenting two (now adult) children.

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August 2014

Strings Magazine

I think of practice as a kind of "balanced mindfulness", cultivating a dispassionate error-signal mechanism, critical of the sound, not the self. 

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April 14, 2020

Esalen Institute

Soulful creative works often have the ability to morph into effective contemplative practices. Esalen faculty Barbara Bogatin has experienced this firsthand in several ways—primarily as a master cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994, but also as an active listener to classical music, which allows her to truly be in the moment.

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