On Wednesday, Aug. 4 at 12:10 p.m., the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts program will be streamed. Complete concert info and links to view the stream will be posted at http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com.

Oboist Catherine Del Russo and pianist Mark Robson will perform works by Gordon Jacob, Walter Piston, Carl Nielsen, Benjamin Britten and Jacques Ibert on a Facebook stream and YouTube.

The program includes Gordon Jacob, “Interludes for Oboe & Piano,” Walter Piston, “Suite for Oboe & Piano,” Carl Nielsen, “2 Fantasies Op.2 pour hautbois & piano,” Benjamin Britten, Two Insect Pieces: “The Grasshopper” and “The Wasp” for oboe & piano and Jacques Ibert, “Escales for Oboe & Piano.”

Oboist Catherine Del Russo received her Bachelor of Music degree and Performance Certificate at the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Robert Sprenkl.

She also received 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, Orchestra Filharmonica de Caracas, and Orquesta Municipal in Caracas, Venezuela. Del Russo has played with many orchestras in Los
Angeles, including the Glendale Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Desert Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, Riverside Symphony and more. Currently, she is principal oboe of Opera Santa Barbara, Orchestra Santa Monica, Downey Symphony, and Asia America Orchestra, and solo English horn with the Hollywood Bowl
Orchestra. She has enjoyed playing on films, commercials and television shows. She has been a promoter of chamber music and new music in Los Angeles.  

In 2011, she won the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenter’s with a chamber music trio for oboe, viola and piano. Del Russo is the founding member of Lobo Ensemble, a chamber music group, with oboe, violin and cello, for which she performs recitals regularly. Del Russo is professor of oboe at Westmont College and Occidental College.  

Mark Robson has been lauded by the Los Angeles Times on numerous occasions, singled out as a pianist with “one of the great techniques” and “an inquiring mind.” His career has included performance as a keyboard soloist, chamber artist, composer, conductor and vocal coach. He was a regular member of the music
staff of the Los Angeles Opera from 1991 to 2013 as an assistant conductor and has worked as a musical assistant at the Salzburg and Spoleto (Italy) festivals. Robson has been on the faculties of USC, Cal State Fullerton, Chapman University and Cal Arts in the capacity of vocal coach and piano teacher. His music has been performed widely, including orchestral works premiered by the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra and the Idyllwild Orchestra. Soprano Patricia Prunty has recorded his song cycle “A Child of Air,” which has been performed at the winter Ravinia Festival. 

Other compositions include a set of 24 preludes for the left hand, a bassoon trio and “Dances and Dirges” for piano, clarinet and cello. 

Robson’s teachers have included Lydia Frumkin, Yvonne Loriod, Alain Motard, John Perry and James Bonn. Two of his large-scale music projects have been the performance of the complete Beethoven sonatas and multiple performances of Messiaen’s great piano cycle “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus.” He can also be heard on occasion in the ensembles the LA Chamber Orchestra and LA Philharmonic.

For more information, email glendalesda@gmail.com.