Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook Live and Youtube:
The APRIL 1, 2020 program can be viewed at this link
beginning at 12:10 pm PT:
https://www.facebook.com/jonah.sirota/videos/vb.696413042/10157514854738043/
The concert is also available for viewing
as a link on the Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube/watch?v=bGcQeDfGJCU
Jonah Sirota's Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyiKPxIQ8EaZHBQd2pDC_jA/
Check this site for updates:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Upcoming concerts:
APRIL 15 at 12:10pm PT: Pianist Brendan White will perform Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis
Facebook LIVE stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm
On Wednesday APRIL 1, 2020 at 12:10-12:40 pm:
Program:
Jonah Sirota- viola
Regina Brady – oboe
Benjamin Britten-Six metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe
J.S.Bach-G major Suite for
unaccompanied cello (on viola)
Jonah Sirota-A new work
for oboe and viola:
COVID OBOE VIOLA OVID
COVID OBOE VIOLA OVID
Scroll down for artists bios.
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Concert schedule: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Glendale City Church also presents the Second
Saturday Concert Series,
and sponsors the Caesura Youth Orchestra http://www.mycyo.org
Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer
Foundation for their mission to support art & education and their generous
grant to GNC.
Composer and
violist Jonah Sirota is a new
breed of multi-talented musician. Equally at home writing concert music,
performing as a soloist and chamber musician, scoring soundtracks for TV, film,
and videogames, and collaborating in improv and new music ensembles, Jonah
creates and recreates vivid music for a wide variety of audiences. His
debut solo recording STRONG SAD, a 2018 National Sawdust Tracks release,
features premiere recordings of new elegies for the viola by Nico Muhly, Paola
Prestini, Arthur Joseph McCaffrey, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Robert Sirota, Kurt
Knecht, and Jonah himself. Recent compositions include Grounded, an
orchestral work written for the Greenwood Music Camp Orchestra and premiered in
the summer of 2018, and the viola sonata Flutter Fingers.
Jonah was
the violist of the recently-disbanded Chiara String Quartet for all of its 18
years. With the Chiara Quartet, he toured internationally, recorded seven
albums and played in numerous major venues worldwide. The Chiara Quartet
performed much of the string quartet repertoire from memory ('By Heart"),
including the complete string quartets of Béla Bartók, a recording of which was
released in 2016 on Azica Records. The group was honored with a Grammy
nomination (2011, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Jefferson
Friedman's 3rd String Quartet on the New Amsterdam label), the ASCAP/CMA
Adventurous Programming Award, the Guarneri Quartet Award, top prizes at the
Paolo Borciani Competition and the Astral Artistic Services Audition, and a Gold
Medal at the Fischoff Competition. Their albums have been featured on N.P.R.,
and in "Best of the Year" lists from the Boston Globe, the New York
Times, and the Wall Street Journal. In the 2015-2016 season, the group was in
residence at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, a venue to which the group
returned for their farewell New York concert in May of 2018. As a concert
violist, Jonah performs with pianist Molly Morkoski, with organist Kurt Knecht
as the improv duo Mondegreen, and as a member of the revived California
String Quartet. He is sought after as an session player and regularly plays
with major orchestras, including the Long Beach Symphony, where he is Assistant
Principal Viola.
Jonah is
also known as a pedagogue. He coaches chamber music at the Colburn School,
teaches viola at Cal State University Fullerton, and gives viola and
composition masterclasses and residencies across the country. His
"practice self-audit" has been used by many viola students to
facilitate the self-evolution their own improvement and creativity in the
practice room, while his Practice Tune-Up for professional and adult amateur
violists has given many the chance to reconnect with their own inner passion on
the instrument. Mr. Sirota has taught at the Juilliard School, at Harvard
University, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of
Music (where he helped build a world-class chamber music program), as well as
at Greenwood Music Camp. http://www.jonahsirota.com/
Equally adept
on the oboe and English horn, Regina
Brady is a member of The Orchestra Now at Bard College. She recently completed
the Master of Music degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she
studied with Anne Marie Gabriele, and Ariana Ghez. She played both oboe and
English horn with the Colburn and Oberlin orchestras. On the Colburn Chamber
Music Society series, Ms. Brady had the opportunity to perform with Jean-Yves
Thibaudet. Ms. Brady is a passionate advocate for new music, and has
collaborated with Los Angeles based new music ensemble, wild Up. As a
member of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, she was chosen to perform on
a special concert series in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ms.
Brady has been a fellow at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, the Texas Music
Festival, and the Sarasota Music Festival. Prior to her studies at Colburn, she
completed the double-degree program at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where
she majored in neuroscience and oboe performance, studying with Robert Walters.
A native of White Plains, New York, she is also a graduate of the Juilliard
Pre-College Division where she studied with Richard Dallessio.
Ms. Brady lives
in the Hudson Valley region of New York, where she maintains a private teaching
studio. She is on the faculty of Greenwood Music Camp where she teaches oboe and coaches
chamber music. https://reginabradyoboe.wordpress.com/
