Glendale Noon Concerts 3/4/26

 

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 March 4, 2026 

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

Wednesday MARCH 4, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT 

 

 DUO VIOLIN RECITAL

 

CHLOE CHIU

 

SHENG-CHING HSU 

 

Program:

Jean- Marie Leclair (French, 1697-1764)
Sonata for Two Violins, Op.3 No.4
Allegro assai
Aria. Andante grazioso
Gigue, Allegro moderato

 

Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (Bohemian, 1801-1866)
Duo in B-flat, No. 1, Op.181
Allegro Vivace
Adagio
Allegro assai

 

Kenji Bunch (American, b. 1973)
3 American Folk Hymns for 2 Violins

The three hymns are: What Wondrous Love Is This; In Lonely Mountain Ways; and I Come With Joy. A calm Prologue and majestic Finale frame the piece.
Originally written for two violas by composer-violist Kenji Bunch.

 

 

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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 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1972744014125421

Preview of the next concert:

March 18, 2026 at 12:10 pm PT

Pianist Brendan White.

Works by Joplin and Gershwin 

 

 ARTIST BIOS:

Chloe Chiu is an accomplished violinist and dedicated educator. Born in Taiwan, she made her solo concerto debut with an orchestra at the age of 11 and has since made her appearances in recitals, chamber music concerts across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Currently she is a member of several symphony orchestras including the Santa Barbara Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and Long Beach Symphony. She also regularly collaborates with film composers and engages in diverse musical performances. 

Chiu received full scholarships to prestigious institutions, earning a Master of Music degree from Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore. She further refined her artistry through the Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Southern California. 

Her teachers include world-renowned violinists Victor Danchenko, former New York Phil concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, soloist Qian Zhou and LA Philharmonic associate concertmaster Bing Wang. She also received chamber music training with the prestigious Tang quartet in Singapore, Paul Katz and Karen Dreyfus at USC, where her string quartet was invited to perform at the Franco-American Music Festival in Missillac, France. 

As a violin instructor, Chiu is passionate about cultivating a supportive, structured and inspiring learning environment. She emphasizes both technical excellence and musical expression, guiding her students to excel in auditions, competitions and performances. 

Chiu’s instrument is generously sponsored by the Rin Collection in Singapore. 

 

 

A firm believer in the power of music, Sheng-Ching Hsu created “S-C Sidewalk Performance” where she brought live music to the street corners of West LA during the pandemic. “S-C Sidewalk Performance” brought comfort and hope to many people during the time of isolation and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto, Canada. Her story was also made into a documentary by “Aria’s Lens” in China.

A native of Taiwan and currently based in Los Angeles, Hsu is a member of Delirium Musicum, California Symphony and New West Symphony. She serves as concertmaster in Iranshahr Orchestra and guest principal second violin of St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra. Hsu serves as a faculty member at California State University – Long Beach as well as Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. Hsu is also a sought-after music arranger. Her latest commissions include the national anthem for the New York Knicks’ Lunar New Year Game in Madison Square Garden. 

Hsu earned her degrees in Stony Brook University, The Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music. Her major teachers include Catherine Cho, Aaron Rosand, Christina Khimm, and Arnaud Sussmann. Hsu’s instruments were generously sponsored by CHIMEI foundation in Taiwan throughout her studies. (www.shengchinghsu.com)

 

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 2/18/26

 

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 FEBRUARY 18, 2026 

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

Wednesday FEBRUARY 18, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT  

 

SAKURA TSAI- violin

NATALIA HUDSON- piano

 

AMY BEACH (American,1867-1944)

Violin Sonata in a minor, Op. 34

 

1.Allegro moderato

2. Scherzo. Molto vivace

3. Largo con dolore

4. Allegro con fuoco 

 

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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 event page:

 https://www.facebook.com/events/4497457293803445

Preview of the next concert:

Wednesday MARCH 4, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm

Violin Duo Recital

Chloe Chiu

Sheng-Ching Hsu

 

Program: 

LeClair- Sonata for Two Violins, Op.3 No.4 

J.W Kalliwoda- Duo in B-flat, Op.181 

Kenji Bunch -3 American Folk Hymns for 2 Violins 

ARTIST BIOS:

Violinist and educator Sakura Tsai enjoys a multifaceted career having performed nationally and internationally as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.

A native of Southern California, Dr. Tsai earned degrees (B.M., M.M., and D.M.A.) in violin performance from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where she was honored the prestigious Order of Areté and became a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. Her mentors and teachers included Midori Goto, Kathleen Winkler, Hagai Shaham, and Alice Schoenfeld. Additional fields of study while pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree included music theory and analysis, violin pedagogy with Endre Granat, and kinesiology.

A dedicated educator, Dr. Tsai is Artist Teacher of Violin at the University of Redlands. She is also on faculty at California School of the Arts-San Gabriel Valley, California State Summer School for the Arts, Junior Chamber Music (Inland Empire), and most recently, Montecito International Music Festival. Dr. Tsai makes frequent appearances as an adjudicator and serves as a clinician in schools around Southern California where she mentors aspiring young musicians. In 2018, Dr. Tsai was selected to be the guest conductor of the San Bernardino County High School Honor Orchestra. She coaches instrumentalists in the Walnut Valley Unified School District at both Diamond Bar and Walnut High Schools while being actively involved with the Diamond Bar High School Performing Arts Academy Advanced Music Program. In addition, Dr. Tsai has a robust private studio and has previously held faculty positions at Marymount California University and Idyllwild Arts Academy.

As a performer, Dr. Tsai is currently a member of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra and Long Beach Symphony. She performs in several regional orchestras and has spent summers at the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany) academies, and Music Masters Course Japan (Japan). Dr. Tsai maintains an active career as a chamber musician winning honors at international competitions such as the International Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival and the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition. As a violinist with chamber ensembles Definiens, DuselForty58, and the What’s Next? Ensemble, Dr. Tsai has championed works of numerous living composers. An avid performer of contemporary music, extensive collaboration with young composers with these ensembles included residencies and performance projects at institutions such as Idyllwild Arts Academy, California State University, Northridge and Long Beach, University of California, Riverside, and University of Southern California. Dr. Tsai’s solo and ensemble performances have been featured live on world-wide television and radio broadcasts such as classical KUSC, KRTU-FM, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Germany), and Japan Broadcasting Corporation – NHK (Japan).

Natalia Hudson has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and Europe in numerous festivals and concerts, including the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, First Night Charleston, the International Piano Series, the Young Artist Concert Series, the Drayton Hall, the LACC, and Moreno Valley College Concert Series. A native of South Carolina, Hudson was awarded the Isabella Mebane Piano Performance Scholarship to pursue a performance degree under Uruguayan pianist Enrique Graf at the College of Charleston. She continued her artist education at the Conservatory in Madrid, Spain under German-born pianist, Uta Weyand. Her other main influences include Vitalij Margulis (Ukraine), Ilana Vered (Israel), and Oxana Yablonskaya (Russia/Israel). 

She received her master’s degree from the University of Southern California and has participated in the World Piano Pedagogy (WPPC), MTNA and Focus on Piano Literature conferences. She is also skilled at teaching in Spanish, and has taught master classes, private lessons and dual-immersion classes in Spanish and English. A member of the California and National Music Teacher Associations, Hudson is a sought-after teacher, jurying competitions and conducting lessons and master classes in numerous music schools and festivals. She currently teaches at her private piano studio, Hudson Conservatory, and serves on the piano faculty at Colburn School of Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles.

Program notes:

“Amy Beach (1867-1944) née Cheney was born in Henniker, New Hampshire. She studied piano with several at the time well-known piano teachers, including Ernst Perabo and Kal Baermann, but with regard to composition she was almost entirely self-taught. She made her concert debut at the age of 16. Two years later, she married a physician 24 years her senior, Dr.Henry Harris Aubrey Beach. During her lifetime, she was known neither by her maiden name nor her own given name but my the moniker “Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.” That this was so, one must remember that this was the practice at the time and even the most celebrated actresses in Britain and America were known by their husband’s names. Hence, all of her compositions appeared under the name of Mrs. H.H.A. Beach and it is only recently in more egalitarian times that she has finally become known under her own name, Amy Beach. For social propriety’s sake, her husband, as a member of Boston’s upper crust, insisted that she limit her concert performances to one a year. It was only after his death in 1910 that she embarked on a concert tour of both Europe and America. She wrote in most genres and was the first American woman to write a symphonic work. Ultimately, she was considered one of America’s leading composers and the only female composer to be ranked alongside of Arthur Foote, George Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, and Horatio Parker. Her writing is in a late Romantic idiom, showing the influence of Brahms and and Cesar Franck.

 

Her Sonata in a minor for Violin and Piano dates from 1897. It was premiered in the same year with her at the piano and Franz Kneisel, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as soloist. The music is valedictory but not without passion and is influenced by both Brahms and Cesar Franck. The opening movement, Allegro moderato, in an ominous fashion, dark and autumnal. Next comes a Scherzo, which as you might expect, is brighter and more upbeat, complete with contrasting trio. The third movement, marked Largo con dolore, begins with a lengthy introduction in the piano before the violin Presents the mournful, but also passionate, main theme. The finale, Allegro con fuoco, explodes in dramatic fashion, full of fire with occasional more lyrical interludes which release the tension.” -Editions Silvertrust

GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS (Live in person free concerts) 2/4/26

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 FEBRUARY 4, 2026 

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

Wednesday FEBRUARY 4, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT  

 

Triple Shot is a jazz piano trio from Los Angeles : 

Morgan Jones, piano

Scott Worthington, bass

Anthony Ty Johnson, drums (guest performer)

 

Their sets feature compositions by all members of the trio, 

creating an eclectic mix from hard bop to swing to modern sounds.

 

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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 event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/859996536907750

Preview of the next concert:

Wednesday FEBRUARY 18, 2026 at 12:10-12:40 pm

 SAKURA TSAI- violin

NATALIA HUDSON - piano

 

AMY BEACH (American,1867-1944)

Violin Sonata in a minor, Op. 34 (1896)

1. Allegro moderato

2. Scherzo. Molto vivace

3. Largo con dolore

4. Allegro con fuoco 

 

ARTIST BIOS:

Morgan Jones received a Master's degree in music from Juilliard. Currently he chairs the Keyboard Department at the Los Angeles College of Music.

He also serves as the Music Director for American Contemporary Ballet. Some career highlights include playing with Aretha Franklin, recording "High Hopes" with Panic! at the Disco, and performing on American Idol and the Voice.

 

 

Scott Worthington is a versatile Los Angeles-based musician, acclaimed as an upright/electric bassist, composer, and improviser known for blending classical, jazz, and experimental sounds, active in contemporary music scenes, co-founding the wasteLAnd series, and serving as a professor at the University of Redlands, recognized for his innovative compositions and electronic music work. He's praised for albums like Prism, uses custom software in his electronic performances, and engineers/produces for various labels. Scott studied at the Eastman School of Music with James VanDemark and at the University of California San Diego with Mark Dresser.

 

Anthony Ty Johnson is a drummer/composer/educator based in Los Angeles. From Hadestown, to the Broadway bound show Goddess, and bands under his own leadership, Anthony is known for his energy, groove, and supportive musicality. He has played all over the country in legendary spaces such as the Kennedy Center, Sam First, the Blue Whale, the Namm Show, Disney Resorts/Cruises, as well as an appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden.