On Feb. 5, the Glendale Noon Concerts will feature violinists Samuel Fischer and Sakura Tsai and pianist Jennie Jung performing works for violin duo by Jessie Montgomery, Dimitri Shostakovich and Pablo de Sarasate. 

The free admission Glendale Noon Concerts meet from 12:10 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. in the sanctuary of Glendale City Church, 610 E. California Ave. in Glendale.

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On the program will be Jessie Montgomery – Musings for Two Violins (2023),
I. Introduction, II. Initiation Song, III. Hymn, IV. Courrante, V. The Swallow and VI. Vivo; also Dmitri Shostakovich – Three Duets for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 97d
I. Prelude, II. Gavotte, III. Waltz; Pablo de Sarasate – Navarra, Op. 33.

Samuel Fischer, violinist, has appeared as soloist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with orchestras including the Charleston Symphony, the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony. Fischer is concertmaster of the Desert Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, the Redlands Symphony Orchestra and the Riverside Philharmonic. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los AngelesOpera Orchestra, and the Pacific Symphony. He has recorded extensively for motion picture and television soundtracks, record albums and video games. In chamber ensembles, he has collaborated with a variety of artists including Anne Akiko-Meyers, Martin Beaver and Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin. Fischer holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree from the Juilliard School. A passionate educator, he is artist professor of violin at the University of Redlands and is on faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program and the Montecito International Music Festival.
Sakura Tsai, violinist and educator, performs nationally and internationally as a soloist and chamber and orchestral musician. She earned degrees (B.M., M.M., and D.M.A.) in violin performance from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where she was honored with the prestigious Order of Areté and became a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. Her mentors and teachers included Midori Goto, Kathleen Winkler and Hagai Shaham. Additional fields of study while pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree included music theory and analysis, violin pedagogy with Endre Granat and kinesiology. Dr. Tsai is on faculty at University of Redlands Conservatory of Music where she also serves as director of the University of Redlands String Project. Additionally, Dr. Tsai teaches at California School of the Arts – San Gabriel Valley and coaches instrumentalists in the Walnut Valley Unified School District. Dr. Tsai frequently appears as an adjudicator and serves as clinician in schools around Southern California and maintains a robust private studio. She is a member of the Redlands Symphony and the Long Beach Symphony, performs in several regional orchestras, and has spent summers at the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany) academies and Music Masters Course Japan (Japan). Dr. Tsai’s solo and ensemble performances have been featured live on TV and radio broadcasts.
Jennie Jung made her debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11 and has since been active as a pianist in North America. Dr. Jung performed as soloist with the Republic of Tatarstan, Korean Philharmonic, Taejon, Korean-Canadian, University of Toronto, Hart House and Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestras. She also attended festivals including the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Music Academy of the West. As a collaborative pianist, Dr. Jung has performed in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and has been on staff at the Mozarteum (Austria), Aspen Summer Music Festival, Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Dr. Jung participated in masterclasses and studied with artists such as Claude Frank, Jonathan Feldman, Marietta Orlov, Marina Geringas, Dalton Baldwin, Anne Epperson, Peter Frankl, Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, Anton Kuerti, Robert MacDonald, Karl Ulrich-Schnabel, and Arie Vardi. Dr. Jung has degrees from the University of Toronto, Yale School of Music and the Juilliard School.  She taught piano and chamber music at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and at Center Stage Strings (U of Michigan). Dr. Jung is currently on the faculty of Pomona and Scripps Colleges as well as the Claremont Community School of Music, and she performs regularly in the Los Angeles area. 

This is the 17th year of presenting free admission concerts every first and third Wednesday for Glendale and the Southland community.

Upcoming concerts will be updated at http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com