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Tri-Institutional Noon Recitals

The Rockefeller University, in its more than a hundred-year history, apart from becoming one of the leading scientific institutions in the world being graced by twenty-four Nobel Prize winners and by hundreds of other scientists changing the world of science with their groundbreaking research, has also been forever enriched by the unique, remarkable, and inimitable John L. Gerlach.

John came to Rockefeller in 1968 joining the Mc Ewen Lab as a research assistant making great contributions, for instance, to the use of radioactive steroid hormones to map the location of their receptors in the brains of males and females. His dedication to science, in time, was joined by his dedication to music (he did study piano in youth) when in 1986 he started to co-direct the Tri-Institutional Noon Recitals together with biophysicist Alexander Mauro. After Dr. Mauro passed away, John directed the recitals single-handedly until the day he died.

In the decades of Friday noon concerts, John would bring an exceptional array of both up-and-coming and already thriving interpreters from around the world, managing all the bookings, publicity, and related operations, always presenting the artists with marked-by-his-friendship introductions. Week after week we were delighted to see music performed by diverse ensembles, played on various instruments, selected from broad range of genres.

In the fall of 2023, after the two-year Covid hiatus, with the hope of normality returning, John re-started the recitals, but it was not to last. At the time of his death, as an astonishing reminder of his gift for finding joy in striving to bring music to others, the number of concerts he has organized stood at 1165, concerts with the combined attendance of about three million, an epitome of the university’s motto pro bono humani.

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  • Attacca Quartet by John Gerlach

    Attacca Quartet

  • Juho Pohjonen, Piano by John Gerlach

    Juho Pohjonen, Piano

  • Signum Quartet by John Gerlach

    Signum Quartet

  • Verona Quartet by John Gerlach

    Verona Quartet

  • JIJI, Guitar by John Gerlach

    JIJI, Guitar

  • Horszowski Trio by John Gerlach

    Horszowski Trio

  • Jimmy Roberts, Piano by John Gerlach

    Jimmy Roberts, Piano

  • Brentano String Quartet by John Gerlach

    Brentano String Quartet

  • Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Piano by John Gerlach

    Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Piano

  • Tenet’s Green Mountain Project by John Gerlach

    Tenet’s Green Mountain Project

  • Zorá String Quartet by John Gerlach

    Zorá String Quartet

  • Soo-Been Lee, Violin and Noreen Polera, Piano by John Gerlach

    Soo-Been Lee, Violin and Noreen Polera, Piano

  • Paul Huang, Violin and Helen Huang, Piano by John Gerlach

    Paul Huang, Violin and Helen Huang, Piano

  • Cantus by John Gerlach

    Cantus

  • Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet by John Gerlach

    Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet

  • Hermès Quartet by John Gerlach

    Hermès Quartet

  • Rémi Geniet, Piano by John Gerlach

    Rémi Geniet, Piano

  • Gwhyneth Chen, Piano by John Gerlach

    Gwhyneth Chen, Piano

  • Soyeon Kate Lee, Ran Dank, piano and Ariel String Quartet by John Gerlach

    Soyeon Kate Lee, Ran Dank, piano and Ariel String Quartet

  • Matan Porat, Piano by John Gerlach

    Matan Porat, Piano

  • The Bedford Chamber Players by John Gerlach

    The Bedford Chamber Players

  • Vassily Primakov, Piano by John Gerlach

    Vassily Primakov, Piano

  • Jinjoo Cho, Violin, and Hyun Soo Kim, Piano by John Gerlach

    Jinjoo Cho, Violin, and Hyun Soo Kim, Piano

  • Manhattan Chamber Players by John Gerlach

    Manhattan Chamber Players

  • Daniel Hsu, Piano by John Gerlach

    Daniel Hsu, Piano

  • Verona Quartet by John Gerlach

    Verona Quartet

  • New York Woodwind Quintet by John Gerlach

    New York Woodwind Quintet

  • Kian Soltani, Cello, and Aaron Pilsan, Piano by John Gerlach

    Kian Soltani, Cello, and Aaron Pilsan, Piano

 

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