Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube: Glendale Noon Concerts 1/5/22

Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube

Glendale Noon Concerts  1/5/22

A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:

Alexander Knecht- violin

Brendan White -piano

 

During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period, 

Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs

to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:

 
The JANUARY 5, 2022 program can be viewed at this link beginning 

at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)

LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:  

On Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/xander.knecht/videos/2174389692713447
On YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rrzqTxyfU

The program will be archived on the

Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
 

Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday JANUARY 5, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:

 

A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:

Alexander Knecht- violin

Brendan White -piano

 

The Christmas Shoes / Leonard Ahlstrom and Eddie Carswell

Pastorale from 'Messiah' / G.F. Händel

Gesu Bambino / Pietro Yon

Child of the Poor / Scott Soper and William Dix

Hail Mary, Gentle Woman - Silent Night / Carey Landry

(Scroll down for artist bios)

 

Facebook JANUARY 5  event page:  

https://www.facebook.com/events/794081798655250/

Please keep checking the site below for updates:

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Streaming on Wednesday JANUARY 19, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:

DUO RECITAL

Ruth Kasckow -flute

Bryan Pezzone – piano

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango

AARON COPLAND Duo

 

PLEASE HELP THESE CONCERTS TO CONTINUE WITH A DONATION: 

https://adventistgiving.org/#/org/ANPPGL/envelope/start 

or by mailing it to 610 E California Ave, Glendale, CA 91206 to the Friends of Music.

The Glendale Noon Concerts series is presented by Glendale City Church every first & third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm. www.glendalecitychurch.org

Concert schedule: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Glendale City Church also presents the Second Saturday Concert Series,

http://glendalecitychurch.org/index.php/ministries/second-saturday-concert-series.html  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.
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC 

 

 

 

ARTIST BIOS:

Alexander Cai Knecht completed a DMA under full scholarship at USC in 2018, where he studied with Brian Chen. He holds a master's degree from Juilliard, where he studied with Masao Kawasaki, and bachelors' degrees  from La Sierra University, where he studied with Jason Uyeyama.

In 2018, he became a member of the viola section of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019, he has served as a Teaching Artist for the Caesura Youth Orchestra at Columbus Elementary School in Glendale. In 2019, he founded a free violin class outreach program at the Los Angeles Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He is a regular participant as a violinist in the liturgical music at St. Joseph the Worker parish in Loma Linda. He has been a mentor teaching strings in the CKC-Music community engagement program in San Bernardino since its founding in 2008, continuing to the present day through Zoom.

This year he was featured in a live performance on AM 870 in Glendale, on the Impassioned Angels program.. Last summer he performed in an online celebration of the violin caprices of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté, as part of a celebration of Canada Day hosted by Scott St. John of the Colburn School. He remains an active teacher and performer online.

In past summers he has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Gonggeng Music Festival in Zhejiang Province, China. He comes from a musical family of Chinese, Korean and Caucasian ancestry including three siblings, all of whom play and teach string instruments.

 

 

Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Delta Symphony Orchestra, Crown City Symphony, Vicente Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony of the Verdugos. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is also a founding member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles; www.sunsetchamberfest.com 

Local recital appearances include: Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, Mason Concerts, Emerging Artist Series Recital at Boston Court, Soundwaves series in Santa Monica.

White was born and raised in Tennessee before attending Eastman to study with Thomas Schumacher, and then, the University of Southern California, with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded Outstanding Master’s Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. As a devoted performer of new music, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Donald Crockett, Alan Pierson, Steven Stucky and Jeffrey Milarsky.