The namesake of the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert graces Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
November 04, 2025
SIU’s Nov. 12 Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert to feature ‘Piano Trio Archduke’
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host the second concert this fall in the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series on Nov. 12 in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda.
The free, public concert begins at 5 p.m. The program, “Piano Trio Archduke,” will feature two new musicians — Gabriel Pereira Vieira, a graduate master’s student in violin in the SIU School of Music, who is studying under Michael Barta, a professor of violin and chamber music, and cellist Wei Liu Denton. Denton is a member of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, the New Philharmonic Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the SIU Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to Vieira and Denton, series co-founder Reiko Schoen will also perform on piano. The first half of the program will feature the three musicians with solo instrument pieces.
Vieira will perform “Adagio and Fugue from Sonata No.1 in G Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach, Schoen will perform “Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 and No. 4” by Johannes Brahms, and Denton will perform Bach’s “Prelude, Allemande, Sarabande and Gigue from cello suite No. 2 in D Minor.”
All three will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Piano Trio Archduke” in the second half of the program.
A QR code and a limited number of full concert programs will be available at the concert.
Schoen is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and Federation of National Music Clubs, and she started the Musical Sprouts piano studio in Carbondale 31 years ago. She is also a member of the SIU Symphony Orchestra.
Series began in fall 2024
Schoen and cellist William Cernota, an assistant lecturer in the SIU School of Music, began the concert series in fall 2024 in honor of Schoen’s late husband, Alan Schoen, who 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.
Schoen said she is grateful for Morris Library, the School of Music and current yearly sponsors for supporting the concert series.
For information regarding the performance or becoming a yearly sponsors for any amount, contact Reiko Schoen at reikotaka@gmail.com. For information about the School of Music, visit the School of Music website.