Two Benefit Recitals
for the
Association for Volunteer Services
Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Paul Mihaly, pianist
Joanne Mihaly, pianist

Sunday, July 20, 7:00 pm
The Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Saturday, July 26, 7:00 pm
Church of Unitarian Universalist, 505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306

Suggested donation of $15 for adults, $10 for children 12 and under.

Proceeds from the recital will support the Association for Volunteer Services, and particularly its Learning to CARE Program to actively engage students in Lebanese schools in volunteering and community service.

After a brief introduction to AVS and the Learning to CARE Program, Dr. Mihaly will perform selections by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin and Lecuona, as well as arrangements of Lebanese folk songs. In addition, his wife Joanne (also an accomplished pianist), will join him for duets by Brahms and Gottschalk.
For further information, call (650) 948-4297 or (650) 799-7651.


Dr. Paul Mihaly began piano studies at the age of five in Santa Rosa, California. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the renowned Juilliard School of Music, New York. He then earned his MA from UC Santa Barbara and DMA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His principal teachers have included Irene Fryer, Adolph Baller, Ilona Kabos, Dr. Erno Daniel and Daniel Pollack. He has performed extensively in California, including appearances with the San Francisco, Thousand Oaks, and Santa Rosa Symphonies. In 1997, he toured Lebanon, performing and presenting master classes at the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Balamand. The following year, he toured South Korea and performed as a soloist with the Korean Chamber Ensemble of  Seoul and the Cheju Youth Symphony. In 1998, he moved to Mountain View where he and his wife teach privately.

The Association for Volunteer Services is a non-governmental organization established in 1998 “to promote, facilitate, and improve volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon and beyond” through workshops, publications, and consulting services. Dr. Patricia Mihaly Nabti (sister of Dr. Mihaly) is the founder and Director of AVS and author of its book, Learning to CARE: Education, Volunteering, and Community Service, the only comprehensive manual to help schools develop service programs. It has been sold to specialists in volunteering and school service worldwide.  AVS has been the National Lead Agency for Global Youth Service Days in Lebanon since 2001 and the National Representative for the International Association for Volunteer Effort since 2002. Copies of Learning to CARE will be available at the performances for the discounted price of $30 (cost online is $35 plus postage).