Name: Miroirs: Gwendolyn Mok & Jeffrey LaDeur
Start: 2025-08-24T16:00:00
Location: Old First Presbyterian Church

Jeffrey LaDeur

Gwendolyn Mok

San Francisco International Piano Festival

A joint recital between beloved pianist and authoritative Ravel interpreter Gwendolyn Mok and Founder/Artistic Director Jeffrey LaDeur. Miroirs represents a landmark development in the evolution of Ravel's style, and each of the five pieces explores striking tonal and expressive territory that bear Ravel's unique musical signature. The individual pieces are each dedicated to a member of Ravel's circle, a counterculture artistic group known as "Les Apaches". One can imagine heady nights in Paris with the likes of Ravel, Ricardo Viñes, Tristan Klingsor, Emile Vuillermoz, and later, Stravinsky. From the elusive Noctuelles (Night Moths, undoubtedly a reference to the group) to the languid depths of Oiseaux tristes, the hypnotic waves of Une barque sur l'océan and the virtuoso fireworks of Alborada del gracioso, the cycle concludes with the evocative and placid La vallée des cloches.