Yuval Ron, an award-winning composer, has been involved in the world of music therapy since a commission in 1990 from researcher Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute for Hemi-Sync music composition using binaural beats. He has collaborated with neuroscientists Mark Waldman and Dr. Andrew Newburg, psychotherapist Dr. Sanjay Manchanda, pioneer healers Dr. Richard Gold and Gail Lynn, Sufis, Kabbalists, and Ayurvedic healers.
He is the founding director of the record label Metta Mindfulness Music, which produces intentional healing music for use in clinics and treatment centers worldwide. Yuval was invited to perform meditative music for the Dalai Lama and the Sufi Sheikh Sidi Muhammad, and has collaborated with the Sufi leaders Pir Zia Inayat Khan and Pir Shabdah Khan; with numerous master musicians including Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Estrella Morente, and Deva Premal; and with the Zen Buddhist priest and master artist Hirokazu Kosaka.
Yuval has been invited to speak at numerous schools, including Yale, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, Middlebury College, MIT, Berklee College of Music, and the University of Chicago. He has given keynote addresses at the Pacific Symposium conference of Oriental Medicine in San Diego and at the Quantum Institute in New Delhi, India.
His book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom, won the Gold Medal Award for the Best Book in Spirituality category in the Indie Book Award 2015. He has composed scores for the Oscar-winning film West Bank Story, PBS Nova documentaries such as Breaking the Maya Code, art house films such as Proteus, and for site-specific installations at the Getty Museum, Japan America Center, LAX, and more.
He is the founder and executive director of Inspired Sound Initiative, the charity nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free-of-charge educational performance arts programming to underserved communities and youth-at-risk worldwide.