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Home > MARKUS_LIBRARY > SPECIAL-COLLECTIONS > TRI-INSTITUTIONAL-NOON-RECITALS

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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  • Inmo Yang, Violin, and Adam Golka, Piano by John Gerlach

    Inmo Yang, Violin, and Adam Golka, Piano

  • Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute by John Gerlach

    Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute

  • Ziyu Shen, Viola, and Jessica Osborne, Piano by John Gerlach

    Ziyu Shen, Viola, and Jessica Osborne, Piano

  • Anderson & Roe Piano Duo by John Gerlach

    Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

  • Attacca Quartet by John Gerlach

    Attacca Quartet

  • Signum String Quartet and Gilles Vonsattel, Piano by John Gerlach

    Signum String Quartet and Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

  • Alan Gilbert, Carter Brey, Anthony McGill, and Inon Barnatan by John Gerlach

    Alan Gilbert, Carter Brey, Anthony McGill, and Inon Barnatan

  • Quodlibet Ensemble by John Gerlach

    Quodlibet Ensemble

  • Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello by John Gerlach

    Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello

  • Fei-Fei Dong, Piano by John Gerlach

    Fei-Fei Dong, Piano

  • Wei Luo, Piano by John Gerlach

    Wei Luo, Piano

  • Stephen Waarts, Violin, and Chelsea Wang, Piano by John Gerlach

    Stephen Waarts, Violin, and Chelsea Wang, Piano

  • Olga Scheps, Piano by John Gerlach

    Olga Scheps, Piano

  • Ada Gorbunova, Piano by John Gerlach

    Ada Gorbunova, Piano

  • Lara St. John, Violin, and Matt Herskowitz, Piano by John Gerlach

    Lara St. John, Violin, and Matt Herskowitz, Piano

  • Julia Bullock, Soprano, and John Arida, Piano by John Gerlach

    Julia Bullock, Soprano, and John Arida, Piano

  • Simone Dinnerstein, Piano by John Gerlach

    Simone Dinnerstein, Piano

  • Tesla Quartet by John Gerlach

    Tesla Quartet

  • Steven Lin, Piano by John Gerlach

    Steven Lin, Piano

  • Aleksey Semenenko, Violin; Artem Belogurov, Piano by John Gerlach

    Aleksey Semenenko, Violin; Artem Belogurov, Piano

  • Jasper String Quartet by John Gerlach

    Jasper String Quartet

  • Claire Huangci, Piano by John Gerlach

    Claire Huangci, Piano

  • Ji, Piano by John Gerlach

    Ji, Piano

  • Karen Gomyo, Violin, and Ismo Eskelinen, Guitar by John Gerlach

    Karen Gomyo, Violin, and Ismo Eskelinen, Guitar

  • Brentano Quartet: Celebrating the 1,000th Tri-Institutional Noon Recital by John Gerlach

    Brentano Quartet: Celebrating the 1,000th Tri-Institutional Noon Recital

  • Attacca Quartet by John Gerlach

    Attacca Quartet

  • Orli Shaham and Shai Shaham, Piano by John Gerlach

    Orli Shaham and Shai Shaham, Piano

  • Conrad Tao, Piano by John Gerlach

    Conrad Tao, Piano

 

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