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 OCTOBER 2, 2024 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 10/2/24
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
JACQUELINE SUZUKI – violin
SARKIS GYURGCHYAN – violin
JONAH SIROTA – viola
ANTONIN DVORAK
Terzetto in C major, Op.74 (1887)
I. Introduzione: Allegro ma non troppo
II. Larghetto
III. Scherzo: Vivace — Trio: Poco meno mosso
IV. Tema con Variazioni
JONAH SIROTA
Terzetto for 2 violins and viola (2024, Premiere!)
Allegretto
Andante
Rondo—allegro vivace
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE ARTIST BIOS:
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 10/2/24 event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3647195315592455
Preview of the NEXT CONCERT:
Wednesday OCTOBER 16, 2024
at 12:10-12:40 pm PT
KEN AISO – Violin
VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA – Piano
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor Wq.78
Violin favorites by Fritz Kreisler
Please check the link below for updates
http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
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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: https://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
Much appreciation to the Hennings-Fischer Foundation for their mission to support art and education and their generous grant to GNC.
Performer 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.
Dr. Sarkis Gyurgchyan performed his first solo violin concert
at the age of eight.
After college, he continued studying the violin to receive his Doctoral Degree
in Violin Performance with an emphasis in Chamber Music at the Komitas State
Conservatory.
Following graduation, he worked as a faculty
member of the Conservatory teaching chamber music while playing with the
Armenian National Symphony and serving as Concertmaster for the State Opera
Studio Orchestra.
Since moving to the United States, Dr. Gyurgchyan has stayed active musically
and is involved with the LA Opera, the LA Master Chorale, the Long Beach
Symphony, the New West Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
He also works in the motion picture industry,
performing music for movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" and
"Night and Day."
Throughout his career, Dr. Gyurghchyan has
worked with renowned musicians including Gergiev, Kchataturian, Rostropovich,
and Domingo. He has toured with Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Pavarotti, The Three
Tenors, and Barry Manilow, among others.
Dr. Gyurgchyan has been teaching violin to
students of all ages his entire career, many of whom have won national and
international competitions.
Composer and violist Jonah Sirota is a new breed of multi-talented musician. Equally at home writing concert music, scoring soundtracks for TV, film, and videogames, and performing on the concert stage and in recording sessions, Jonah creates and recreates vivid music for a wide variety of audiences. His debut solo recording STRONG SAD, a 2018 National Sawdust Tracks release, features premiere recordings of new elegies for the viola by Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Arthur Joseph McCaffrey, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Robert Sirota, Kurt Knecht, and Jonah himself. His orchestral work Grounded was recently performed by major youth orchestras in New York and Massachusetts, and his soundtrack to the Public Television documentary Return of the American Bison was nominated for a 2019 Heartland Emmy Award.
Jonah was the violist of the recently-disbanded Chiara String Quartet for all of its 18 years. With the Chiara Quartet, he toured internationally, recorded seven albums and played in numerous major venues worldwide. The Chiara Quartet performed much of the string quartet repertoire from memory (‘By Heart”), including the complete string quartets of Béla Bartók, a recording of which was released in 2016 on Azica Records. The group was honored with a Grammy nomination (2011, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Jefferson Friedman’s 3rd String Quartet on the New Amsterdam label), the ASCAP/CMA Adventurous Programming Award, the Guarneri Quartet Award, top prizes at the Paolo Borciani Competition and the Astral Artistic Services Audition, and a Gold Medal at the Fischoff Competition. Their albums have been featured on N.P.R., and in “Best of the Year” lists from the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. In the 2015-2016 season, the group was in residence at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, a venue to which the group returned for their farewell New York concert in May of 2018. As a concert violist, Jonah performs with pianist Molly Morkoski, with organist Kurt Knecht as the improv duo Mondegreen, and as a member of the revived California String Quartet. He is sought after as a Hollywood session player and regularly plays with major orchestras, including the Long Beach Symphony, where he serves as Assistant Principal viola.
Jonah is also known as a pedagogue. He coaches chamber music at the Colburn School, and gives viola and composition masterclasses and residencies across the country. His “practice self-audit” has been used by many viola students to facilitate the self-evolution their own improvement and creativity in the practice room, while his Practice Tune-Up for professional and adult amateur violists has given many the chance to reconnect with their own inner passion on the instrument. Mr. Sirota has taught at the Juilliard School, at Harvard University, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music (where he helped build a world-class chamber music program), as well as at Greenwood Music Camp. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.
