Outstanding Staff Award
-Susan Neuhoff (Philosophy)

Teaching Excellence Award (Lecturers)
-Beverly Mathis-Swanson (Radio, Television, Film, Theatre, & Animation/Illustration)
-Anne (Christy) Junkerman (Art & Art History)
-James Lindahl (Humanities & Philosophy)

Teaching Excellence Award (Tenured & Probationary Faculty)
-Juan Sempere-Martínez (World Languages and Literatures)

Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity Award
-Cathleen Miller (English & Comparative Literature)

Lecture with Dr. Dariush Zahedi, UC Berkeley
“Iran’s Upcoming Presidential Elections and the Nuclear Dispute”
Thursday April 11, 2013, 7 pm MLK Library 225/229

Concert by Pianist Gwendolyn Mok and faculty from the School of Music and Dance
to launch Mok’s newest CD Brahms, The Composer’s Piano, Late Piano Works
MSR 1450

Where: Concert Hall, School of Music
San José State University
When: Monday April 15, 2013, 8 PM
General Admission: $20, Students $10

On Monday, April 15, pianist Gwendolyn Mok will be joined by voice and string faculty
from the School of Music to celebrate the launch of her latest solo CD, Brahms, The
Composer’s Piano, Late Piano Works Opp 116-119. The works were recorded on two
historic pianos from Brahms’ time and are similar to ones that the composer played. The
program includes Waltzes for piano four-hands, the complete Liebesleider for four voices
and piano four-hands, and the magnificent Trio in B major, Opus 8, all performed on the
1868 Erard Grand and 1871 Streicher Grand.

The evening is a benefit for the Historic Keyboard Collection in the School of Music at
San José State University, where Mok is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies. Her earlier
solo CD Ravel Revealed, the complete solo works of Maurice Ravel recorded on the 1868
Erard, is frequently broadcast on radio stations locally and around the world. Both the
Brahms and the Ravel CDs are on the Musicians Showcase Recording label.

Born in New York City, Gwendolyn Mok has appeared in many of the world’s
leading concert halls, including The Barbican, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center,
Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, and The Hong Kong
Performing Arts Center. She is frequently invited to play and record with major
international orchestras, most notably the London Symphony Orchestra, The
Philharmonia, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Philharmonic
Orchestra, and the Residency Orchestra of The Hague. Mok is a popular chamber
musician and appears regularly with members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
in Davies Symphony Hall, as well as such prominent groups as the Ives Quartet and
Prazak Quartet. She also appears in solo recitals and as soloist with the Symphony
Silicon Valley, San José Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.

Gwendolyn Mok’s newest recording Brahms; Late Piano Works will be available for
purchase at the concert, and the proceeds will go towards creating a fund to curate the
historic keyboard collection in the School of Music and Dance.

For concert information please call the School of Music and Dance Main Office at (408) 924-4673.

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University

and the American Beethoven Society present the

27^th ANNUAL

Celia Mendez

Young Pianist’s Beethoven Competition

With

Stephan Moeller

University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

P R O G R A M

STEPHAN MOELLER first gained prominence as a prizewinner at the 1985 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna. Since then his busy concert schedule has taken him to Japan, China, North and South America as well as all over Europe. Though performing all the standard repertory, Moeller has concentrated especially on the interpretation of the Vienna classics, in particular Beethoven’s thirty-two sonatas and five concertos, as well as on Franz Liszt’s paraphrases of Wagner opera scenes and transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies. He has recorded such rarities as Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” played four-hands with himself on a computer-assisted Bösendorfer grand piano and the complete piano works by Richard Wagner. Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1955, Moeller studied piano and conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. From 1983 to 1989 he assisted Herbert von Karajan and other world-renowned conductors at the Salzburg Festival. In 1990 he took up an appointment at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is frequently invited for concerts, master-classes and lectures around the world. Moeller is president of the Vienna International Pianists Association and their festival, the “VIP Academy.” In 2009, he founded the “International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition.”

The Young Pianist’s Beethoven Competition is named after Celia Mendez, a piano teacher and musicologist in San José, California, who conceived of and founded the competition in 1987. In the spring of 2007, the Executive Board of the American Beethoven Society unanimously voted to name the competition after her in honor and recognition of her inspirational work in support of Beethoven’s music and the many fine young pianists and their teachers throughout the state.

Please use the attached order form for you ticket order.

Call the Beethoven Center at (408) 808-2058 for more information.

Beethoven center current exhibit:
“Beethoven’s Vienna: Music-Making, Machinery and Technology, the Imperial Capital and its Surroundings, Everyday Life, and Napoleon’s Invasions in 1805 and 1809″

What do these items have in common? Engravings of battle scenes and palaces; a Viennese cookbook from 1803; a zograscope and vue d’optique prints; three locks of hair, a quill pen; music manuscripts and period instruments. They allow us to look into the years between 1792 and 1827 that Ludwig van Beethoven lived and worked in Vienna.

The exhibit is free and open to the public through May 25.

Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Fifth Floor, Beethoven Cente, Room 580
Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, 1 – 5 p.m.

http://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/exhibitions/currentexhibit.html