FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm
On Wednesday, OCTOBER 4, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm:
Program:
GUILLAUME LEKEU
Sonata for piano and violin in G major, Sz.23
Sonata for piano and violin in G major, Sz.23
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Beau Soir (arr. J. Heifetz)
Beau Soir (arr. J. Heifetz)
JACQUELINE SUZUKI - violin
CHARLES FIERRO - piano
Read about Lekeu:
Please scroll down for artist bios.
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:
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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:
(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm;
programs subject to change)
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MORE FREE CONCERTS:
At the Edendale Branch Library in ECHO PARK
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Artist 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.
She initiated and curates the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com and also the Edendale Up Close
Concerts: http://edendaleupclose.blogspot.com
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.
