On Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 12:10 p.m., the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program will be streamed.

Alexander Knecht will perform works for solo violin by J.S. Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe on a Facebook stream and Youtube.

Alexander Cai Knecht, 29, from Loma Linda, completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree under full scholarship at USC in 2018, where he studied with Bing Wang and Brian Chen. He holds a master’s degree from the Juilliard School where he studied with Masao Kawasaki, and bachelors’ degrees in violin performance and mathematics 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. During the past year, he has served as a teaching artist for the Caesura Youth Orchestra at Columbus Elementary School in Glendale. This summer he also represented CYO as a teaching artist in the YOLA At Home Virtual Seminario in collaboration with El Sistema USA. Earlier this year he was invited as a guest violin sectional coach to Glendale High School. Last year he founded a free violin class outreach program at the Los Angeles Chinese Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 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.

Last month 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, and is grateful for high-speed Internet.

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.

Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts is celebrating it 12th year of presenting free admission, and now streamed, concerts every first and third Wednesday for Glendale and the Southland community.

To see upcoming concerts, visit http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com.

For more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com or call (818) 244-7241.