Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts 8/2/17

  
FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS

Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm

  

Previously announced program will be rescheduled (date tba):
Pianist NANCY FIERRO :"Music from the Belle Époque"

On Wednesday, AUGUST 2, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm:

 

CHARLES FIERRO

PIANIST

Antonio Soler (1729-1783)

Three Sonatas                                                          

            C minor

            D minor

            F minor

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Four Piano Pieces                                           

Andante cantabile

Allegro agitato

Moderato

Allegro

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Arabesque (1889)                                                   

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Toccata (1932)                                                    

Artist Website: http://charlesfierro.blogspot.com
(Please scroll down for artist bio)

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC

PLEASE NOTE:

The Glendale Noon Concerts series now takes place

in the Sanctuary at

GLENDALE CITY CHURCH

610 E. California Ave (at Isabel St)

Glendale, CA 91206

INFO:

Please call Victoria Lucero (818-244-7241 office)

or email glendalesda@gmail.com

General info & parking:

http://glendalecitychurch.org/our-location/

https://www.facebook.com/glendalecitychurch

http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/

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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:

(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm; 

programs subject to change)
http://www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com/

MORE FREE CONCERTS:
At the Edendale Branch Library in ECHO PARK
http://www.edendaleupclose.blogspot.com/

Artist bio:

 

One of Southern California's leading pianists, Charles Fierro has made concert tours for the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council and has given more than 25 concerto performances with orchestras.  He has appeared twice at the National Gallery of Art and the Dumbarton Oaks Foundation in Washington, D.C.  In 1976 he played the American Bicentennial Recital at the Palace of Fontainebleau in France on the personal invitation of the legendary musician, Nadia Boulanger.  He has interpreted the music of Beethoven, Schumann, Schoenberg and Liszt at the Ojai Festivals and performed more than a dozen times at the prestigious Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, presenting the American premieres of important new works. 

His debut for Nonesuch Records was named “Critics’ Choice” for five consecutive months by High Fidelity Magazine.  His recording of the piano music of Aaron Copland was made under the auspices of the composer himself.  For Delos International, he has recorded MacDowell's Sonata Eroica and Twelve Virtuoso Etudes. For Nonesuch, he has recorded MacDowell's Keltic Sonata, Sea Pieces, and Woodland Sketches and the world premiere recording of MacDowell's First Modern Suite. 

Current repertoire includes the major works of Aaron Copland; Hindemith's complete Ludus Tonalis and Three Piano Sonatas; the Debussy Preludes Book 1 and the major chamber works of Guillaume Lekeu.

 As Professor of Music at California State University Northridge, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award.  An experienced adjudicator, he is known for his inspiring master classes in all aspects of the piano repertory.  He has lectured at the New England Conservatory (Boston) and the Colburn Conservatory (Los Angeles) and taught at the Image International Music Festival. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Paderewski Music Society.  He is also the author of numerous published articles on musical subjects, as well as chamber music reviews which have appeared in the international press.

Charles Fierro studied piano with Lillian Steuber, Adele Marcus and Joanna Graudan and musicology and conducting with composer Ingolf Dahl, whose major piano works he has recorded on the Orion label.  He holds a Doctorate of Music “with Distinction” from the University of Southern California.