FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm
On Wednesday FEBRUARY 6, 2019 at 12:10-12:40 pm:
LOBO ENSEMBLE
Catherine Del Russo - oboe
Jacqueline Suzuki - violin
Jeness Johnson - cello
Please scroll down to read artist bios.
Program:
A set of Renaissance
and early Baroque pieces:
Rondo e Saltarello (Anon.(Susato, publisher) Antwerp, 1551)
Pavane et Galliarde (Anon.
(Phalèse, publisher) Leuven, 1571)
Couranta (Johann Staden, German, 1581-1634)
Sinfonia d’Istromenti Senza Voci (Adriano Banchieri, Italian, 1568-1634)
GIOVANNI
BATTISTA PERGOLESI (Italan, 1710-1736)
Trio Sonata No.1 in G Major
Moderato
ALESSANDRO BESOZZI (Italian,1702-1793)
Trio No.1 in C Major
Trio No.1 in C Major
Andante
Allegro
Allegro
BEVAN MANSON
Interlude No.1 for English horn, violin, and
cello
Interlude No.2 for oboe, violin, and cello
Vista Del Marty:
2.Moderato
4.Andante
JEREMY GILIEN
Pandora’s Habanera
Tango Mexicali
Left Banke Tango
-->
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:
(NO SOLICITATIONS, PLEASE: Glendale Noon Concerts
is not accepting artists to the program.)
is not accepting artists to the program.)
Call 818-244-7241 (office)
or email glendalesda@gmail.com
General info & parking:
http://
Accessible for wheelchairs. Seating available next to wheelchairs.
Loading zone near California Ave. entrance.
Accessible for wheelchairs. Seating available next to wheelchairs.
Loading zone near California Ave. entrance.
**************************
MORE FREE CONCERTS:
At the Edendale Branch Library in ECHO PARK
http://
Artist Bios:
Catherine Del Russo received her Bachelor of
Music Degree and Performance Certificate at the Eastman School of Music where
she studied with Robert Sprenkle, and her Masters of Music Degree from Ohio
University where she studied with John Mack in Cleveland. Since then, Del Russo
has performed around the world, beginning with the Eastman Wind Ensemble to the
Far East as Principal Oboe. After that, she performed with the Buffalo
Philharmonic, Filharmonic de Caracas and Orquesta Municipal in Caracas,
Venezuela. Del Russo has played with many orchestras since moving to Los
Angeles, including the Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra,
Long Beach Symphony, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, and the Honolulu
Symphony. Currently, she is Principal Oboe of Orchestra Santa Monica, Downey
Symphony, and Symphony in the Glen, and is Solo English horn for the Hollywood
Bowl Orchestra and the Asia America Symphony. Del Russo has enjoyed playing on
many films, commercials and television shows. She has been a promoter of
chamber music and new music in Los Angeles. Her oboe, viola and piano trio won
the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenters. Del Russo is
Professor of Oboe at Westmont College and is on the Applied Music faculty at
Occidental College.
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.
Jeness Johnson, international cello soloist, combines
passion and virtuosity unlike any other cellist of her generation. When the
world famous cellist Janos Starker heard her play at age 11 he said “She is the
next great talent.” Jeness has performed worldwide including such prestigious
halls as Severance Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Teatro
Sociale in Como, Italy. She has performed for former President Jimmy Carter,
Pope John Paul II, Yo-yo Ma, and collaborated with artists as diverse as K.D.
Lang , Kenny Loggins, James Taylor, and La Scala Quartet. Jeness attended the
Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra,
Meadowmount School of Music, and is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy,
and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has developed her own unique
improvisational skills and enjoys improvising, composing, and recording for
film and television.
She currently resides in Los Angeles where she is in high demand as a soloist and
recording artist.
Composer/pianist Bevan Manson has received commissions
from Sierra Chamber Music, French hornist Brian O'Connor, the San Francisco
Symphony, First Night Boston, Chatter in Albuquerque, Channel Islands Chamber
Orchestra, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra violist Victoria Miskolczy.
His Blue Bird, Blue Jay, for chorus and chamber
orchestra (on texts by Emily Dickinson) was commissioned and
presented by the Pacific Shores Philharmonic Foundation in
2016.
Midnight Winds and the
Occidental Woodwind Quintet have premiered and performed his woodwind
quintet Switchbacko, respectively. Raphael's Music Notes
(Cincinnati) had this to say of a recent recording of this
quintet: "Manson’s writing is brilliant,
inventive, witty but never self-consciously clever." Arco Voce featured his Piano Quartet on their
concert series at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., to critical
acclaim. The Washington Post called Bevan's Piano Quartet "powerfully
polyrhythmic."
Bevan's California Concertino for Flute and Chamber Orchestra was
premiered in NYC by Katherine Fink of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and also
performed by L.A. Chamber Orchestra flutist David Shostac with the
Brentwood-Westwood Symphony. Regarding a recent recording with Sara Andon and
the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Fanfare Magazine commented that it “spins out a lovely melodic line…it is clear American pastoralism
at its best.”
Bevan is a founding member of the international composers collective Improvisatory Minds, which presents concerts of classical chamber music informed by a jazz perspective. Music of Bevan Manson, a recording of his recent chamber music, including the flute concertino, works for solo clarinet, piano quartet, and string trio, was recently released on Albany Records.
Jazz Improv Magazine described his CD, Mystic Mainstream, as “radical recasts of standards that demand your attention." He has arranged and conducted music for saxophonist Gary Smulyan at NYC's Blue Note, and is currently creating new jazz versions of several Sondheim songs for Manhattan Transfer vocalist Cheryl Bentyne. He has recorded on the Challenge, Iris, Brownstone, and GM labels.
Bevan has performed with
George Garzone, Cecil McBee, Darol Anger, Gunther Schuller, Bob Sheppard, Matt
Wilson, Howard McGhee, Suzanne Pittson, Ron Jones L.A. Big Band, Cathy
Segal-Garcia, Matt Glazer, Ethel Merman, and Bob Moses. He has also
worked in Hollywood as a studio musician, and on camera in film and
television. Bevan was a winner of the American Jazz Piano Award in
Jacksonville, FL.
Bevan is a graduate of
the Eastman School of Music. He was the Director of UC Jazz at UC Berkeley from
1998 to 2003, and formerly taught at New England Conservatory in Boston, from
1987 to 1997. He is currently serving as Instructor in Jazz Studies
at Ventura College, leading their Jazz Band, teaching Jazz History and
coaching music students in composition and improvisation.
Jeremy Gilien
was a founding faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the
Arts, and served as musical director of the music theater program until 2006,
when he became director of music for the department of dance. He is the composer of three operas: The
Magician, The Happy Prince, and Calcutta Rose (about Mother
Teresa). His Symphonice Suite from The Happy Prince was the winner of the 1997 Valley Symphony
Composition Competition and received its premier under the baton of maestro
Robert Chauls. His latest work for the stage is an operatic/political/circus
farce entitled Civicus Dutius, which was premiered by the Cal State
L.A.department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
He has been nominated for a Lester Horton Award for outstanding
achievement in music for dance for his work with the choreographer Rudy
Perez. Mr. Gilien has been director of
music at Lynwood United Methodist Church, and currently serves as director of
music of Downey United Methodist Church. He also serves on the music staff of
University SDA church. He is currentl
staff accompanist at the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute of the Colburn School,
the Colburn Dance Academy, and has played summer intensive training programs
for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), Joffrey Ballet, and Cecchetti U.S.A.. Mr Gilien received an MA degree in
composition from California State University, Los Angeles, where he studied
composition with Byong- Kon Kim and served as a repetiteur for the opera
workshop.
-->
