Thursday, August 17, 2017

Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts 9/6/17

FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm 
On Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm:

ARIOSO DUO:
CYNTHIA ELLIS -flute
MICHELLE TEMPLE - harp
Program:
"The Early Bird"
Chanson de Matin, Op.15, No.2 - Edward Elgar
The Fog is Lifting - Carl Nielsen
Pan et les oiseaux from La Flute de Pan - Jules Mouquet
Variations "Early Morning" - Jean-Michel Damase

Ensemble website:  
http://cindyellisflute.weebly.com/arioso-duo.html

Please scroll down for artist bios.

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

PLEASE NOTE:
The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place
in the Sanctuary at
GLENDALE CITY CHURCH
610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)
Glendale, CA 91206

INFO:
Please call Victoria Lucero (818-244-7241 office)
or email glendalesda@gmail.com
General info & parking:
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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:
(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm; 
programs subject to change)
http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/


Artist bios:

Cynthia Ellis is the solo piccolo player for the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and also served as Principal Flute for the Opera Pacific Orchestra from 1995 until the company closed in 2009. 
She is a member of the Pedagogy Committee for the National Flute Association and has taught on the music faculty at the Claremont Graduate School, Pomona College, Biola College, and CSU Fullerton. She currently teaches applied music at Saddleback College and Hope International University and serves as music director for Laguna Flutes. 
Piccolo is a specialty for Cindy: she writes the "Let's Talk Picc' column for Flute Talk Magazine and served as an artist in residence at the International Piccolo Symposium in July, 2013, held at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Cynthia has recorded for television, motion picture and cartoon soundtracks as well as commercially released chamber music recordings. 'Beyond Beethoven", with the award winning Les Amis Musicalles trio, was released on the Centaur label,  and Jeremy Beck’s  Flute Sonata is recorded on the CD 'Never Final, Never Gone", on the Nova label. This sonata is also dedicated to her.
Cynthia shares her home with Pacific Symphony trumpet player Tony Ellis and their three Labrador retrievers.
For more information visit http://www.cindyellisflute.com/


Harpist Michelle Temple has been a member of Pacific Symphony since 1994, and was awarded the position of Principal Harp with the Santa Barbara Symphony in 1991. She has also served as Principal Harp for Opera Santa Barbara for over 20 years.
         An active orchestral musician, she has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Opera Pacific, Singapore Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Her many ballet orchestra credits include the American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Ballet of London, and the Bolshoi Ballet.
         Michelle has shared the stage with some of opera’s brightest stars, including Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Deborah Voigt, Frederica von Stade, Denyce Graves, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Renee Fleming.
In 2005, Michelle and flutist Cynthia Ellis formed the duo Arioso out of a shared passion to explore the vibrant and colorful repertory for flute and harp, and they have performed innovative recitals and education concerts throughout Orange County. Their first CD Petite Delights was released on the Centaur label in 2016 and received immediate airplay on Classical KUSC.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University and a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California.

Friday, August 4, 2017

Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts 8/16/17


FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS

Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm











On Wednesday, AUGUST 2, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm:
NANCY ROTH - violin
LORENZO SANCHEZ – piano
  
Joaquin Turina
"El poema de una sanluqueña" (©1924)
1. Ante el espejo
2. La canción del lunar
3. Alucinaciones
4. El rosario en la iglesia



Charles Ives
"Second Sonata" (1902-1910)
1. Autumn
2. In the Barn
3. The Revival
  

Please scroll down for artist bios.

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

PLEASE NOTE:
The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place
in the Sanctuary at
GLENDALE CITY CHURCH
610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)
Glendale, CA 91206

INFO:
Please call Victoria Lucero (818-244-7241 office)
or email glendalesda@gmail.com
General info & parking:
*************************************
UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:
(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm; 
programs subject to change)
http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/

MORE FREE CONCERTS:
At the Edendale Branch Library in ECHO PARK
http://www.edendaleupclose.blogspot.com/

Artist bios:
Nancy Roth, violinist and violist, is currently concertmaster of the Culver City Symphony and Marina Del Rey Summer Symphony. She is also principal second violinist of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, and a member of the Pasadena Symphony. She is a former member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal violist of the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and she served many years as concertmaster of the San Fernando Valley Symphony and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony. Nancy has been a featured soloist with numerous Southern California orchestras including the Culver City Symphony, Carson Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Southland Symphony Orchestra, Valley Symphony, and Rio Hondo Symphony. She has given recitals and radio broadcasts in the United States, Austria and Mexico, and she is currently a member of the new music group “TEMPO” based at CSU Northridge. Nancy is a member of the String Family Players (quintet), which performs educational programs for the Music Center On Tour, and she has been on the faculty of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute Summer Music Festival. She has played baroque violin and viola with James Tyler in the London Early Music Group and Los Angeles Musica Viva. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Music from CSUN, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from USC.
Lorenzo Sánchez's teachers include Anita N. Olsen, James Bonn, Robert Ward, Constance Keene, and Malcolm Hamilton. In 1992, he completed a doctorate of musical arts degree at USC.

Lorenzo has premiered new concert music for piano, including Robert Guillory's Concertino for Piano and Orchestra.  His interest in Polish music led him to appear several times as lecturer and performer at the annual Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles, California.

In 2004, Lorenzo accompanied a choral group on a concert tour of Italy, which included playing for mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. He accompanied a second choral music tour of Italy in January of 2013.

He has collaborated in concerts featuring music by African-American composers such as William Grant Still and George Walker.  In March of 2005, Lorenzo performed for Dr. Walker and Japanese composer Mitsuru Asaka in concerts which took place in Hawaii.

Looking toward his own heritage, Lorenzo has performed in vocal, chamber, and solo concerts featuring music by Mexican composers.  He has edited and helped publish piano music by Mexican composer Domingo Lobato (University of Guadalajara, 2016). He has recorded a solo piano CD of Lobato’s four Piano Sonatas and recently released a second CD of other solo piano works by the same composer. He has frequently performed in Mexico with violinist Konstantin Ziumbilov, most recently in Guadalajara’s historic Teatro Degollado.

He has performed in many concerts with violinist Nancy Roth in Southern California, and is currently recording a new CD with clarinetist Virginia Figueiredo.