MTAC Santa Clara Branch Presents

February 2012 Program

 

The Works of Brahms

By Gwendlyn Mok

 

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, 10am

Concert Hall, San Jose University Music Building

The workshop will be about Brahms' works from the perspective of recording them on a piano from Brahms' period.

 

 

One of the leading experts in the piano music of Maurice Ravel, Dr. Gwendolyn Mok has appeared with the world's foremost orchestras and in major concert halls since her 1988 debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican. She is a frequent soloist with the great orchestras of Europe and Asia and has recorded with The Philharmonia and The London Philharmonic for Cala records. Ravel Revealed recorded on an 1875 Erard piano of the complete solo piano works of Ravel for MSR has been critically acclaimed and is regularly broadcast in the United States and in England on the BBC. Dr. Mok has performed and recorded as well with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, The Group for Contemporary Music, and the Empyrean Ensemble. She is invited regularly to adjudicate major competitions including The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and most recently served on an international panel of jurors for the Russian Piano Music Competition in San Jose. She has taught at the Royal College of Music, Dartington International Summer School, Welsh College of Music and Drama, San Francisco Conservatory and was appointed the Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at San Jose State University in 2006.

Dr. Mok received her B.A. from Yale University where she studied with Donald Currier and Claude Frank and her M.M. and D.M.A. from State University of New York at Stony Brook where she studied with Gilbert Kalish. Dr. Mok was a recipient of a grant from the French Ministry of Culture to work with Vlado Perlemuter from 1994-1995, who passed onto her his knowledge of Ravel. Perlemuter was Ravel's student from 1927-1928 and was one of the world's leading authorities of his music.

 

 

For questions or information, please contact Carol Liu at 408-472-3725 or cliu@joyfulmelodies.com

 

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