Gwendolyn Mok & Friends

San Jose Chamber Music Society

MUSIC

Gwendolyn Mok playing her rare, Paris-built 1875 Érard piano, gives us the sound of Brahms’ music as he heard it on the piano he cherished for its sturdy mechanism and harp-like sonorities. Brahms’ Piano Trios and Horn Trio (an elegy to his recently departed mother) are richly romantic works. We’ll hear Brahms’ 1890 revision of Op.8. His late piano music is introspective. The Op.118 is dedicated to Clara Schumann.

ARTISTS

Recording artist, solo, chamber, and concerto pianist Gwendolyn Mok has played and recorded with leading European and Chinese orchestras. The piano trio’s Diane Nicholeris and David Goldblatt are San Jose State faculty and San Francisco Symphony members. The horn trio’s Kevin Rivard and Craig Reiss, are members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

Pre-concert talk at 6:15pm by Gary Lemco

Free parking in City garage across from Trianon concert hall