SIU School of Music faculty Anthony Gray (left) and Jiyeon Lee will perform June 11 in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda. (Photo provided)
June 01, 2026
SIU School of Music faculty piano duo featured in Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Music faculty Anthony Gray and Jiyeon Lee will perform Thursday, June 11, in the Yellow Moon Gyroid Concert Series, in Morris Library’s third-floor rotunda.
The free, public concert begins at 5 p.m.
Gray is an associate professor of practice in collaborative piano and Lee is an assistant professor of practice, also in collaborative piano.
The performance will feature a mixture of piano four-hands and piano solo repertoire that includes works by composers Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Francis Poulenc.
“We think this program offers a nice mixture of styles from elegant Classicism to passionate Romanticism, and 20th-Century sarcasm,” Gray said. “We hope the audience will enjoy the variety of styles and contrast of piano four-hands and solo repertoire.”
Reiko Schoen, who co-founded the series in fall 2024, is “very delighted to have two of the piano faculty to feature exclusively piano music for the first time in this series.” She added that she is “grateful to all musicians and the donors who participated throughout this season.”
A limited number of printed concert programs, along with a QR code for a print-free program will be available at the event.
Schoen is a member of the Federation of National Music Clubs. She operated the Music Sprouts piano studio in Carbondale for 31 years before retiring in May 2025. She is also a member of the SIU Symphony Orchestra.
The series honors Schoen’s late husband, SIU Carbondale professor Alan Schoen, who discovered the gyroid in 1968 while working for NASA. The rotunda is home to Yellow Moon Gyroid made in Schoen’s honor by algorithmic artist Jesse Louis-Rosenberg.
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.
For information regarding the performance or becoming a yearly sponsor for any amount, contact Reiko Schoen at reikotaka@gmail.com. For information about the School of Music, visit the School of Music website.