GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 10/16/24

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 OCTOBER 16, 2024 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  10/16/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

Ken Aiso – violin

Valeria Morgovskaya - piano

 

C.P.E.Bach 

Sonata in c-minor

1.Allegro Moderato

2.Adagio,ma non troppo

3.Presto

 

Mozart-Kreisler Rondo

Albeniz-Kreisler Tango

De Falla-Kreisler Dance Español

 

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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 10/16/24 event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1658705718039451

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT: 

Wednesday NOVEMBER 6, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

Kathy Marsh -flute
Patrick Marsh -viola 

works by 

 Hoffmeister 

Cambini 

Devienne

 

 

Please check the link below for updates

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

 

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: https://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.

 

Performer Bios:

Internationally acclaimed violinist/violist Ken Aiso has performed worldwide as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Ken graduated form the Royal Academy of Music in London studying with Erich Gruenberg. His other teachers include Eduard Schmieder and Chikashi Tanaka. Equally at home with modern and period instruments, Ken has appeared as principal violin with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Philharmonic, the Hallé and the Scottish Chamber Orchestras.

He has been invited to renowned music festivals in UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Georgia, Bolivia and Kazakhstan, and has taught at Montecito Summer Music Festival since 2008. Ken is a laureate of Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris and International Music Competition of Japan, and was elected Associate of Royal Academy of Music in London. He received Shimousa Kan-ichi Music Award in his native Japan in 2018. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2015, Ken has been serving as faculty at Loyola Marymount and La Sierra Universities, and performs with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

 

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.

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 10/2/24

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 OCTOBER 2, 2024 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  10/2/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

JACQUELINE SUZUKI – violin

SARKIS GYURGCHYAN – violin

JONAH  SIROTA – viola

 

ANTONIN DVORAK

Terzetto in C major, Op.74 (1887)

       I.        Introduzione: Allegro ma non troppo

     II.        Larghetto

    III.        Scherzo: Vivace — Trio: Poco meno mosso

   IV.        Tema con Variazioni

 

JONAH SIROTA

Terzetto for 2 violins and viola (2024, Premiere!)

Allegretto

Andante

Rondo—allegro vivace

 

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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 10/2/24 event page: 

 https://www.facebook.com/events/3647195315592455

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT: 

Wednesday OCTOBER 16, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

KEN AISO – Violin

VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA – Piano

 

 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor Wq.78

 

Violin favorites by Fritz Kreisler

 

 

Please check the link below for updates

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

 

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: https://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.

 

Performer Bios:

Jacqueline Suzuki, violin, is a longtime member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara Symphonies. A native of San Francisco, she began her earliest chamber music studies on scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory. She has performance degrees from the Mannes College of Music (BM), where she studied with William Kroll, and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA). As a Los Angeles freelancer, she has performed with many ensembles and in many genres, from rock, jazz, Latin and Arabic, to playing in the pit for the Bolshoi Ballet and onstage with the Three Tenors. She has recorded with diverse artists: Snoop Dogg, Neil Sedaka, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, Bocelli, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner, Placido Domingo and many others, and appears on recordings by the Long Beach, Santa Barbara and Pacific Symphonies. She has spent summers at the Peter Britt, Oregon Coast, Carmel Bach and Cabrillo Festivals and has performed in a string quartet “in residence” on a raft trip down the Green River in Utah. Tours have taken her many times to Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and throughout the US.

Dr. Sarkis Gyurgchyan performed his first solo violin concert at the age of eight.
After college, he continued studying the violin to receive his Doctoral Degree in Violin Performance with an emphasis in Chamber Music at the Komitas State Conservatory. 
Following graduation, he worked as a faculty member of the Conservatory teaching chamber music while playing with the Armenian National Symphony and serving as Concertmaster for the State Opera Studio Orchestra.
Since moving to the United States, Dr. Gyurgchyan has stayed active musically and is involved with the LA Opera, the LA Master Chorale, the Long Beach Symphony, the New West Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. 
He also works in the motion picture industry, performing music for movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Night and Day."
Throughout his career, Dr. Gyurghchyan has worked with renowned musicians including Gergiev, Kchataturian, Rostropovich, and Domingo. He has toured with Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, The Three Tenors, and Barry Manilow, among others.
Dr. Gyurgchyan has been teaching violin to students of all ages his entire career, many of whom have won national and international competitions.

 

 

Composer and violist Jonah Sirota is a new breed of multi-talented musician. Equally at home writing concert music, scoring soundtracks for TV, film, and videogames, and performing on the concert stage and in recording sessions, 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.  His orchestral work Grounded was recently performed by major youth orchestras in New York and Massachusetts, and his soundtrack to the Public Television documentary Return of the American Bison was nominated for a 2019 Heartland Emmy Award.

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 a Hollywood session player and regularly plays with major orchestras, including the Long Beach Symphony, where he serves as Assistant Principal viola.

Jonah is also known as a pedagogue. He coaches chamber music at the Colburn School, 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. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 9/18/24

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 SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 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  9/18/24

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

The video of this concert is archived here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnw072cc1I

Potts and Fife

Kirstin Fife (violin-composer)

Albert Wood Potts (piano-composer)

 

 

Selections from Cups……Kirstin Fife

 

 

1.    Connecting 

2.    Friendship

3.    Joy and Contentment

4.    Nostalgia

5.    Daydreaming

6.    Moving On

 

 

 

Tango in b minor……Albert Wood Potts

 

Tango in a minor…… Albert Wood Potts

 

Malagueña…………… Albert Wood Potts

 

Beguine…………………Albert Wood Potts

 

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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 9/18/24 event page: 

 https://www.facebook.com/events/1068560318322206

Preview of the NEXT CONCERT: 

Wednesday OCTOBER 2, 2024

at 12:10-12:40 pm PT

 

 Jacqueline Suzuki – violin

Sarkis Gyurgchyan – violin

Jonah Sirota – viola

 

Antonín Dvořák

Terzetto

 

Jonah Sirota
Terzetto for two violins and viola (premiere)

 

 

Please check the link below for updates

http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

 

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: https://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com

Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.

 

Performer Bios:

Kirstin Fife is a  violinist, performer, composer and teacher.  As a composer/arranger/orchestrator, she has had several of her chamber works performed in Southern California, including “Dali Pieces” at the Newport  Beach Library Concert Series,  “Cornicopia” at the Glendale Noon Concerts, “Hair Pieces” at  South Pasadena Presbyterian Church Concerts, and “The Major Arcana” at Sun Space.  In April 2019, she was invited by Doug Tornquist to speak at USC about her “Tuba Sonatina.”  Also, several tuba players worldwide, have performed her work for tuba and piano, “Basso Bossa”.  In the fall of 2020, Santa Barbara Symphony presented  a movement from her duo for flute and viola, “Indoor Games”.   Most recently “Quintet for Flute and Strings” was premiered at the Glendale Noon Concerts in August of 2023. Other notable performances of Ms. Fife’s music at Glendale Noon Concerts include the “Sonata for Violin and Piano”, “Tango Johana”  for violin and piano and “Charites” for solo Viola D’Amore. She was thrilled to have “Quintet for Clarinet and Strings” premiered by the Avanti Ensemble in Pasadena last October.  Also, she and Albert Wood Potts premiered her fourteen movement suite “Cups” last October at a private home recital.  The Glendale Noon Concert on September 18, 2024 is the first time that six of the movements will be performed, publicly.

As a freelance violinist, she has released two solo CD’s “Pieces of My Heart” and “Czechmate”.  As a session violinist, she has recorded extensively for movies, TV and records.  She has performed on several  award shows, including  the  Grammy Awards,  Academy Awards and Emmy Awards.  Most recently , (2023) she served as concertmaster for the Pasadena Playhouse’s production of ”A Little Night Music.”  In addition, Kirstin has always maintained a private violin/viola teaching studio.

Kirstin Fife holds degrees from Yale University (MM) and USC (BM).

 

Albert Wood Potts, Composer/Pianist, is delighted to be performing at Glendale Noon Concerts.. Albert has been composing music and playing piano since the age of 11. He has written concert music for piano and chamber groups, ballet productions, and feature films.

 

His piano composition Joy, Hope, and Peace was recorded by George Winston on his Grammy nominated album Montana-A Love Story. Albert’s original album Dreaming For Real charted number one nationally on independent radio stations and was featured on inflight programming by Delta and Singapore Airlines.

 

In addition to composing and playing piano Albert is an award winning musical director of theater productions and is currently music director for the Pageant Of The Masters in Laguna Beach. Albert has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music and a Masters from Northwestern University.