First Friday Concert Series - October 2022

Mona Williams Coalter graduated from Indiana University in 1979 with a Master of Music Degree, with Distinction, in piano performance. In 1977 she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, summa cum laude, from Taylor University in piano performance and composition. After graduating from IU, Mona taught at
Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana, and then at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

She has had two piano duet books of hymn arrangements published: “Praise Him! Praise Him!” and “For Every Season.” Musical collaboration has long held a special place in her heart, and she has been a staff accompanist at Roosevelt University and Moody Bible Institute, as well as doing free-lance accompanying work in the Chicago Area. She concertized with Un-Young Whang in the Coalter and Whang Piano Duo for several years and recorded a CD of four-hand piano works, “With Grateful Hands.”

She is currently a staff accompanist at Notre Dame University and is also a gardener and potter

Mona Coalter

Reflections: Music of Hope and Peace

  • Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Prelude in C# Major, BWV 848

  • Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI/50 Franz Joseph Haydn

  • Allegro

  • Adagio

  • Allegro molto

  • Romance, Op. 28 No. 2 Robert Schumann

  • Arabesque No. 1 in E Major, L. 66 Claude Debussy

  • All Creatures of Our God and King Lasst Uns Erfreuen/Arr. Mona Coalter