Lorenna Brown, left, and her husband, Noah, perform at the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series in November. Noah Brown is a graduate master’s student in music at SIU Carbondale. (Photo provided by Reiko Schoen)
January 22, 2025
SIU Versa’tile faculty-student chamber ensemble to perform Jan. 29
CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music will present the faculty-student Versa’tile Chamber Music Ensemble on Wednesday, Jan. 29, in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda.
The free, public program begins at 7 p.m. and is part of the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series.
The performance will feature the SIU School of Music talents of soprano Carley Jo Goggans, a graduate teaching assistant and master’s student in choral conducting; Julia Mrazek, a graduate teaching assistant and master’s student in clarinet; Iasmin Bonfim de Carvalho, a graduate teaching assistant and master’s student in music on violin; Thomas Edgar, a May 2024 SIU graduate with degrees in piano performance and aviation flight, and cellist William Cernota, who has taught SIU students.
The repertoire is:
- “Solo Cantata No. 1, Singet dem Herrn, Psalm 98” by Dietrich Buxtehude, performed by Goggans, Bonfim de Carvalho, Cernota and Edgar.
- “The Gyroid” by Edgar, performed by Bonfim de Carvalho and Edgar.
- “Dream with Me” from “Peter Pan” by Leonard Bernstein, performed by Goggans, Cernota and Edgar.
- “Worth Living,” by Edgar, performed by Goggans, Cernota, Mrazek and Edgar.
- “Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 114,” by Johannes Brahms, performed by Mrazek, Cernota and Edgar.
“It has been my great pleasure to work with this wonderful group of musicians since the summer of 2024,” Cernota said. “Each of them is an artist in their own right, and our combination reaches even greater heights. With their participation, that of other SIU faculty members and students, as well as co-director Reiko Schoen, the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series at Morris Library has a devoted following and assured future.”
Established in October 2021, Versa’tile is under the auspices of the Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society and School of Music.
For information regarding the performance or to receive an advance PDF of the program, notes and song texts, contact Cernota at bactocello@gmail.com. For information about the School of Music, visit the School of Music website.
This is the third concert in the series, which was established in 2024 by Cernota and Schoen, whose late husband, SIU Carbondale professor Alan Schoen, discovered the gyroid.
The rotunda is home to Yellow Moon Gyroid made by algorithmic artist Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, honoring Schoen’s 1968 discovery while working for NASA.
A gyroid is an infinitely connected periodic minimal surface with no straight lines; a minimal surface has the smallest area possible within a given boundary. Schoen, a physicist, mathematician and computer scientist, taught at SIU Carbondale from 1973 to 1996.