Streaming on FACEBOOK & YouTube
Glendale Noon Concerts 1/5/22
A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:
Alexander Knecht- violin
Brendan White -piano
During the Covid-19 "Safer at Home" period,
Glendale Noon Concerts will bring our programs
to you via streaming on Facebook and YouTube:
The JANUARY 5, 2022 program can be
viewed at this link beginning
at 12:10 pm PT. (VIDEO will be available ongoing)
LINK TO VIEW THE CONCERT:
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xander.knecht/videos/2174389692713447
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rrzqTxyfU
The program will be archived on the
Glendale City Church Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt6zEXA-8F7CPOixLDWxGBA
Watch previous Glendale Noon Concerts streams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAfaPgGGMw&list=PLms1LJpnTpJzK7Yf6ryh2zyFMlkl7qC2z
Read about the previous programs:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Facebook stream: GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10 pm PT
On Wednesday JANUARY
5, 2022 at 12:10 pm PT:
A Program to Celebrate the Winter Season:
Alexander Knecht- violin
Brendan White -piano
The Christmas Shoes / Leonard Ahlstrom and Eddie Carswell
Pastorale from 'Messiah' / G.F. Händel
Gesu Bambino / Pietro Yon
Child of the Poor / Scott Soper and William Dix
Hail Mary, Gentle Woman - Silent Night / Carey Landry
(Scroll down for artist bios)
Facebook JANUARY 5 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/794081798655250/
Please keep checking the site below for updates:
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Streaming on Wednesday JANUARY 19, 2022 at 12:10-12:40 pm PT:
DUO RECITAL
Ruth Kasckow -flute
Bryan Pezzone – piano
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango
AARON COPLAND Duo
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: www.glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Glendale City Church also presents the Second Saturday Concert Series,
http://glendalecitychurch.org/index.php/ministries/second-saturday-concert-series.html and sponsors the Caesura Youth Orchestra http://www.mycyo.org
Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer
Foundation for their mission to support art & education and their generous
grant to GNC.
RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
ARTIST BIOS:
Alexander Cai
Knecht completed a DMA
under full scholarship at USC in 2018, where he studied with Brian Chen. He
holds a master's degree from Juilliard, where he studied with Masao Kawasaki,
and bachelors' degrees from La Sierra University, where he studied with
Jason Uyeyama.
In 2018, he became a member of the viola section of the Long Beach Symphony
Orchestra. Since 2019, he has served as a Teaching Artist for the Caesura Youth
Orchestra at Columbus Elementary School in Glendale. In 2019, he founded a free
violin class outreach program at the Los Angeles Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist
Church. He is a regular participant as a violinist in the liturgical music at
St. Joseph the Worker parish in Loma Linda. He has been a mentor teaching
strings in the CKC-Music community engagement program in San Bernardino since
its founding in 2008, continuing to the present day through Zoom.
This year he was featured in a live performance on AM 870 in Glendale, on the
Impassioned Angels program.. Last summer he performed in an online celebration
of the violin caprices of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Grammaté, as part of a
celebration of Canada Day hosted by Scott St. John of the Colburn School. He
remains an active teacher and performer online.
In past summers he has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, the Music
Academy of the West, and the Gonggeng Music Festival in Zhejiang Province,
China. He comes from a musical family of Chinese, Korean and Caucasian ancestry
including three siblings, all of whom play and teach string instruments.
Pianist Brendan White has appeared as soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music), Delta Symphony Orchestra, Crown City Symphony, Vicente Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony of the Verdugos. White’s collaborations in Southern California have included the Mühlfeld Trio, which won the prestigious Beverly Hills Auditions, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Speakeasy Society, and Eighteen Squared. He is also a founding member of the Sunset ChamberFest in Los Angeles; www.sunsetchamberfest.com
Local recital appearances include: Glendale Noon Concerts, Pasadena Presbyterian Music at Noon, Music@Mimoda, Mason Concerts, Emerging Artist Series Recital at Boston Court, Soundwaves series in Santa Monica.
White was born and raised in Tennessee before attending Eastman to study with Thomas Schumacher, and then, the University of Southern California, with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, where he was awarded Outstanding Master’s Graduate of the Thornton School of Music. As a devoted performer of new music, he has worked with notable composers and conductors including Thomas Adès, Donald Crockett, Alan Pierson, Steven Stucky and Jeffrey Milarsky.
