Saturday, April 26, 2025

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 5/7/25

Free Admission   

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS             

Every First & Third Wednesday at 12:10-12:40 pm,  

has returned to live performances

in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church!

 

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

On Wednesday MAY 7, 2025 

at 12:10 -12:40 pm PT

the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program

will be performed live in the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church.  

 610 E. California Ave Glendale, CA 91206

 

PARKING INFO:

https://glendalecitychurch.org/location

 

Glendale Noon Concerts  5/7/25

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

JEROME KESSLER - cello

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA – piano

Corelli-Kessler 

Adagio
 

Johannes Brahms 

Sonata  for cello #1 in e-minor
1-Allegro non troppo
2-Allegretto quasi Menuetto
3-Allegro

 
Jerome Kessler 

"Hummingbird "

 

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ARTIST BIOS:

 

STILL AVAILABLE! Watch

previous Glendale Noon Concerts streamed concerts

(April 2020-February 1, 2023):

 

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

Read about the previous programs:   

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Facebook 5/7/25 event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/549560431520348

 

Preview of the next concert:

Wednesday MAY 21, 2025 

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

FIATO QUARTET

Carrie Kennedy – violin

Joel Pargman – violin

Aaron Oltman -viola

Ryan Sweeney – cello

https://www.fiatoquartet.com

Program:

Franz Joseph Haydn

Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 33, no. 2 "The Joke"  

1.    Allegro moderato

2.    Scherzo: Allegro

3.    Largo

4.     Presto


  Florence B. Price

Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

                            3. Juba: Allegro

 

Performer bios:


For over half a century, Jerome Kessler has been an active in the music world of Southern California. He was a founding member of the Beverly Hills Trio and the Los Angeles Cello Quartet. Since 1981 he has served as Music Director/Conductor of the Topanga Symphony.
He is a member of the Camilli Trio.

An original member of Stokowski’s  American Symphony Orchestra, he was former Principal Cellist of the Pasadena Symphony. He has played in Hollywood’s recording, motion picture and television orchestras since 1964.


    A proponent of contemporary music, he has commissioned and/or premiered works for cello, multiple cello and orchestra by such composers as Barry Brisk, Frank Campo,  Ron Jones, Fred Katz, Robert Linn, Thomas Pasatieri, JAC Redford, Nelson Riddle, Willard Roosevelt and Eugene Zador.
    
    
    As cellist, conductor and composer, he has appeared in all four corners of the US, and in between. He played with Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa and recorded with John Denver, Neil Diamond, Richard Harris and Nicolas Slonimsky.

 

Valeria Morgovskaya, pianist, graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory. Since her immigration to the US in 1990, Ms Morgovskaya has been in high demand as accompanist for singers and all orchestral instrumentalists. She has been an official accompanist to festivals and courses such as Piatigorsky Cello Seminar and Beverly Hills Music Festival, and has performed throughout the US, Germany and Japan, as well as on numerous radio broadcast. She has provided accompaniment for many national and international competitions, and was an official accompanist at Schoenfeld International String Competition in Hong Kong (2013) and Harbin (2014). Ms. Morgovskaya is currently staff accompanist at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, and is often engaged in that capacity at USC, Cal State Long Beach, Colburn School, Montecito International Music Festival, Academy of the West and Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.

No comments:

Post a Comment